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Crack in the Wall
Claudia Piñeiro
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Description for Crack in the Wall
Paperback. A dying marriage, a dead-end career but a young woman and a murder change everything for a Buenos Aires architect. Translator(s): France, Miranda. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
Pablo Simo's life is a mess. His career as an architect is at a dead-end; reduced to designing soulless office buildings desecrating the heart of Buenos Aires. His marriage seems to be one endless argument with his wife over the theatrics of their rebellious teenage daughter. Everything changes with the unexpected appearance of Leonor, a beautiful young woman living in the apartment of Nelso Jara, a blackmailer murdered and buried in the foundations of a building finished twenty years before. Pineiro once again demonstrates her capacity to reveal the things hidden behind the facades of our existence; human relationships based ... Read more
Pablo Simo's life is a mess. His career as an architect is at a dead-end; reduced to designing soulless office buildings desecrating the heart of Buenos Aires. His marriage seems to be one endless argument with his wife over the theatrics of their rebellious teenage daughter. Everything changes with the unexpected appearance of Leonor, a beautiful young woman living in the apartment of Nelso Jara, a blackmailer murdered and buried in the foundations of a building finished twenty years before. Pineiro once again demonstrates her capacity to reveal the things hidden behind the facades of our existence; human relationships based ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908524089
SKU
V9781908524089
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About Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Pineiro, formerly a journalist and playwright, is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into many languages. A Crack in the Wall follows on the success of All Yours and Thursday Night Widows, both previously published by Bitter Lemon Press.
Reviews for Crack in the Wall
Praise for previous novels by Claudia Pineiro: "Thursday Night Widows is a gripping story. The dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentina's class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie." Times Literary Supplement "If you read only one crime book in translation this year, make All Yours the one, ... Read more