- Premio Clarín de Novela 2005 · Winner
Thursday Night Widows
Las viudas de los jueves
Claudia Piñeiro (born 1960)
Translated by Miranda France
English editions
In EnglishThursday Night Widows
Bitter Lemon Press · United Kingdom · 2009 · Paperback · 274 pages
Thursday Night Widows
Bitter Lemon Press · United Kingdom · 2010 · 276 pages
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Behind the walls of a gated community, a set of well-off friends will do anything to keep their way of life. Every Thursday the men gather on their own, away from their wives, who joke that they are Thursday widows. Then one night the ritual is broken, and what follows exposes the dark side of these apparently perfect lives. Told in the tone of a crime story, the novel portrays a closed social world falling apart, and with it Argentina in the 1990s, as the country around them crumbles.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 318 pages in the original
- Genres
- Crime, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Argentina, 1990s
- First published
- 2005 by Clarín/Aguilar
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9789507827150 (original)
9781904738411 (Bitter Lemon Press, United Kingdom)
9781904738589 (Bitter Lemon Press, United Kingdom)