3 best books by Claudia Piñeiro

Today's Argentine literature comes to us largely with its female voice. In addition to own Claudia Pineiro, other great authors such as Samantha Schweblin they dominate the most international narrative from this South American country strewn with illustrious narrators who have already passed away such as Borges, cut o Bioy Casares.

It is a generational change without more, casual, but it is still representative that these women are among the most recognized in a field as relevant as literature. Each one of them writes what she writes, with her imprint and her need to tell some stories or others. Taste is in the variety and thematic disparity.

The case of Claudia Piñeiro composes one of those fascinating evolutions of the writer who seeks his voice, who traces an unpredictable evolution according to the moments, the accompanying readings or the need to tackle one or another subject. From erotic to juvenile literature and reaching the black genre with that interesting background that complements a genre in vogue with many other nuances that complement any of its plots in a more suggestive way.

But beyond black on white, Claudia Piñeiro has also become a famous playwright, giving a new rudder change in that restless spirit that should govern every creator. However, in this space I will focus on his novels. I hope they help you decide what to read from this great writer.

Top 3 recommended books by Claudia Piñeiro

Thursday's widows

In my opinion, the secret for a novel centered on a specific social environment to end up succeeding always depends on the capacity of the characters to act as a transmission belt of the essential, of the deeply human beyond their own conditioning factors, cultures and idiosyncrasies.

This is the only way to achieve the magical empathy towards the far away that also enriches and shows us other places where everything takes place under different patterns. For a woman writer, the proposal appears singularly opposed.

Claudia tells us about some men from the social elites who meet every Thursday, parking their real lives to share that masculine universe that at times peeks into the abyss of their vanities and their almost childish desires driven by their privileged social status.

The widows of Thursdays are they, the wives, who have assumed that holiday for their husbands, without remotely intuiting that it might not be the best idea.

Because if already the tinsel of that Argentine upper middle class to which they belong seems to be decomposing their trompe l'oeil of opulence, the decisions of that sort of sect of virility will end up blowing up the unstable base of an unreal life.

Thursday's widows

A little luck

There is always someone who escapes from tragedy. Knowing that in the flight you can leave parts of skin and soul but assuming those collateral damage.

And many are those who judge the way in which the others flee, weighing as improvised judges that balance between whether survival proceeded or whether it was time to assume the unfortunate fate to awaken the mercy of every neighbor reincarnated as a judge.

This novel is about that, about the hypocritical decisions and judgments of the environment that surrounded Mary Lohan, the girl who twenty years later returns to her original Argentina with that band of triumph worked but miserable for those who remained there, in the a girl's homeland.

What moves her to return is a kind of need for reconciliation, reparation and ultimate defense ...

Tuya

The most common tragedy is deception. And on this small tragedy that happens inside the doors in a multitude of homes is built the same sense of loss, of the fading of time shared and of vital suffocation.

Even so, there are always those who try to maintain the forms, to recover that unreal feeling that nothing has happened. Marriage is sometimes the most ominous of the arguments to leave everything as it is, to cover the past with a black veil and seek a repetition of life until the moment of disappointment.

But in this novel there is much more, there is a hint of a crime novel, the death of the lover and an investigation into the unfaithful husband. And the woman, defeated by herself, decides to side with that past, yearning for a life that will never be the same.

Tuya

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The time of the flies

Inés is released after fifteen years in prison for murdering Charo, her ex-husband's lover. Her life has changed, but so has society: the advancement of feminism, equal marriage and abortion laws, inclusive language. Inés, a traditional housewife whose motherhood was not a happy one for her, understands that she must be practical and adapt to the new reality. She even if it costs her.

She associates with the only friend she made inside the prison, La Manca, and they set up a double company: she is in charge of carrying out fumigations and her partner investigates as a private detective. Like Thelma and Louise from the suburbs, Inés and La Manca face complicated situations, with the desire to reinvent themselves.

Until, unexpectedly, one of Inés's clients, Mrs. Bonar, proposes a very disturbing exchange; As a way out of the darkness of the past, the proposal can tilt the balance dangerously to the unfavorable side. But it can also change their lives.

The time of the flies
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