Thursday Night Widows

An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter' a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society ''Jos Saramago' Nobel Prize winner The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves! ''Pieiros clever U.S. debut. illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.Publishers Weekly Pineiro is particularly skilful at exposing the social forces undermining Argentine society' and the fragility of personal relationships. We learn the surprising truth of the three mens death in the final chapter; the build - up to it is riveting. The Times (London)'Pieiro builds up tension through banal' domestic details and the accretion of despair in everyday marital and professional struggles. There may be bloody murder at the centre of this novel' but the dystopia portrayed is an indictment not solely of an assassin but of Argentinas class structure and the willful blindness of its petty bourgeoisie. Times Literary Supplement .A razor - sharp psychological and social portrait not only of Argentina' but of the a fluent Western world as a whole. Rosa Montero Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires.