Crime books set in Argentina (4)
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1.
Eartheater by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimopulos EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
This highly acclaimed contemporary Argentinian novel is the first in Giramondo’s Literature of the South series, featuring innovative fiction and non-fiction by writers of the southern hemisphere. It is translated from the Spanish by Australian translator Alice Whitmore. All My Goodbyes is a novel told in overlapping vignettes, which follow the travels of a young Argentinian woman across Europe (Málaga, Madrid, Heidelberg, Berlin) and back to Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia) as she flees from situation to situation, job to job, and relationship to relationship. Within the complexity of the ... continue
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La pregunta de sus ojos by Eduardo Alfredo Sacheri ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Benjamín Chaparro es un funcionario judicial que todavía sigue obsesionado por la brutal, décadas de antigüedad violación y asesinato de una joven casada en su propio dormitorio. Mientras intenta escribir un libro sobre el caso, él revisita los detalles de la investigación. Cuando busca en el pasado, Chaparro también recuerda el principio de su largo, y no correspondido amor por Irene Hornos, por aquel entonces solamente una pasante, ahora una respetable juez.