Thursday Night Widows
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005XQ96UQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"There's no doubt that The Cascade can be an isolating place and that's not necessarily a bad thing." Mary Whipple Despite the tacky cover, this book is no potboiler. Instead, the cover accurately reflects the values of the beautiful people of Cascade Heights, a gated and walled residential community thirty miles outside Buenos Aires with full-service security-along with a golf course and top-quality tennis. The wealthy residents of The Cascade have left their old lives behind, and low live in elaborately built houses with spectacular landscaping, a world apart. Argentine aut. Paradise or prison? Settle down with a pot of tea, or a bottle of wine, like a denizen of Cascades Heights, and enjoy the rarefied lifestyle inside a gated estate outside Buenos Aires!You never have to lock your doors. Criminals can't get past the perimeter wall and armed security guards. And with all the regulation flowering bushes, the air is overwhelmingly sweet in every season. Argentina is suffering from the post-9/11 economic crisis, but the residents of Cascade Heights can fe. "interesting look at Argentina" according to A Customer. As Argentina falls apart due to an economic collapse of incredible proportions just after 9/11, the country seems on the verge of anarchy with no place that is safe. That is except for the well to do living in gated communities that insulate them from what is going on outside except for the TV news and their outside employment.In the Buenos Aires gated community Cascade Heights, four men (El Tano Scaglia, Martín Urovich Gustavo Masotta and Ronie Guevara) h
But this is more than a story about crime. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. It takes place during the post-9/11 economic meltdown in Argentina, but it is a universal story that will resonate among credit-crunched readers of today.The film of Thursday Night Widows, by Argentine New Wave and award-winning director Marcelo Piñeyro is coming soon with trailers available online.Claudia Piñeiro was a journalist, playwright, and television scriptwriter and in 1992 won the prestigious Pléyade Annual Journalism Award. debut . This novel won the Clarin Prize for fiction and is her first title to be available in English.. She has more recently turned to fiction and is the author of literary crime novels that are all bestsellers in Latin America and have been translated into four languages. "An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!“Piñeiro’s clever U.S. illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly“Piñeiro is particu
(Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The search for the truth behind their deaths takes a backseat to the soap operaish goings-on of the Cascade Heights set, as seen in flashbacks largely through the eyes of Guevara's realtor wife, Virginia. From Publishers Weekly Near the start of Piñeiro's clever U.S. The three men, along with Ronie Guevara, regularly had dinner on Thursday nights at one of their houses in this exclusive enclave. All rights reserved. Readers with an interest in contemporary Argentina will appreciate how this crime novel illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11. debut, which won Argentina's Clarin Prize for fiction and has been made into a film, the bodies of three well-to-do men—El Tano Scaglia, Martín Urovich