The Dead Girls
Picador Classic
$25.33
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2018
Summary
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm Tóibín
In 1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as ‘Las Poquianchis’, run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape.
The Dead Girls is the discovery of these young women, buried in the back yard. In the laconic tones of a police report, Jorge Ibargüengoitia investigates these horrific murders and their motives.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509870172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509870172 |
| Author: | Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Asa Zatz |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Cynical madams, corrupt soldiers, cheapjack politicians, violent crimes, bodies in the back yard … The Dead Girls is a startlingly good book by an author of genuine, exciting originality – Salman Rushdie
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Jorge Ibargüengoitia was born in 1928 in Guanajato, central Mexico. Winner of the Premio Casa de las Americas, as well as the Premio Mexico, for his novel Estas ruinas que vas, he worked as a translator, as a teacher of Spanish literature in American universities and as a journalist in Mexico City. He died in 1983 in Spain.
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