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The fragility of bodies / Sergio Olguín ; translated by Miranda France.
Van Pelt Library PQ7798.425.L48 F7313 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olguín, Sergio, 1967- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Fragilidad de los cuerpos. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women journalists--Fiction.
- Women journalists.
- Corruption.
- Railroad accidents.
- Murder--Argentina--Buenos Aires--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Argentina--Buenos Aires.
- Suicide--Fiction.
- Suicide.
- Railroad accidents--Fiction.
- Corruption--Fiction.
- Organized crime--Fiction.
- Organized crime.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Manners and customs.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Physical Description:
- 381 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a junkie in rehab and two street kids willing to risk everything for a can of Coke, she uncovers a group of men involved in betting on working-class youngsters convinced to play Russian roulette by standing in front of fast-coming trains to see who endures the longest."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "First published in Spanish as La fragilidad de los cuerpos by Tusquets Editores Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2012"--Title page verso.
- Translated from the Spanish.
- ISBN:
- 9781912242191
- 1912242192
- OCLC:
- 1112418856
- Publisher Number:
- 99982652058
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