Thursday Night Widows
by Claudia Pineiro

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UK: Jul 2009 / US: Jan 2010

Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime, poverty and filth of the people on the streets, the Scaglias and their friends hide lives of infidelity, alcoholism, and abusive marriage. Claudia Piñeiro’s novel eerily foreshadowed a criminal case that generated a scandal in the Argentine media. But this is more than a story about crime. The suspense is a by-product of Piñeiro's hand at crafting a psychological portrait of a professional class that lives beyond its means and leads secret lives of deadly stress and despair. It takes place during the post 9/11 economic melt-down in Argentina but it’s a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today.
Production is expected in 2009 of the film of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine new wave and award winning director Marcelo Piñeyro.

Author Information
From Argentina a bestselling new author is published for the first time in English. Novelist, journalist and playwright...

The Translator
Miranda France wrote "Bad Times in Buenos Aires" published in 1998 and which met with great critical acclaim.

Praise for Thursday Night Widows
''An agile novel...a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society.'' José Saramago

''A razor-sharp psychological and social portrait... '' Rosa Montero