“The time of the flies”of Claudia Pineiro. Alfaguara, 405 pages. $3,999.-
The first detective novel Pineiro it was called “Yours” and it was brief, sharp, very black, with hatred and revenge of a couple. The second, “Thursday’s widows”, had a more complex plot; got the clarin award and it was filmed immediately. Since then, she populated bookstores here and around the world with the majority of novels of the same genre (it is worth noting “Elena sabe” and “Cathedrals” among many others) but also others such as “A communist in underpants”, autobiographical and varied. The main force of his prose is a desire and pleasure to narrate that take the reader where he wants, while being as fascinated as he is. He also displayed more and more combative and forceful feminist activity, and began to write series scripts.
The last novel is both the longest, and a continuation of “Yours.” It happens after Inés Experey (the new name she chooses, for ex Pereyra) is released from prison, after fifteen years of sentence. A close friend of La Manca, a fellow prisoner, they work together, one as a pest sprayer, the other as a private detective. Soon a somewhat poisonous order adds Mrs. Bonar. In turn, the almost denied daughter of Inés, already a mother, is getting closer and closer.
The text includes a series of abrupt snippets of intense discussion about aspects of gender identity, where female voices turn collective without warning, which is somewhat distracting. But the original suspense, the last-minute arrival and the profile of the different characters fully comply with what is required by Piñeiro’s high level of complexity, informed participation, effective dialogues and structurally creative character in the plot. It is not hard to imagine the adaptation to the cinema and the appearance of a new “buddy movie”, in the style of “Thelma and Louise”.
THE RECOMMENDED
THIRST, by Amélie Nothomb. Anagram, 123 pages. $2,250.-
With thirty rather short titles, several of them autobiographical, Nothomb’s work Remember Cesar Aira. His last translated novel by him is one of the good ones. He reconstructs the night and the end of Christ between the crucifixion and the resurrection. She does it in the first person: she thinks of Mother Mary, of the apostles and of her lover Magdalena, she faces above all the sensation of thirst and the definitive joy of quenching it, a sensation as intense as love and death. He also philosophizes, thinks, is amazed at the fervor with which the beneficiaries of his miracles complain. Her flowing style and attentive attitude save her from excessive symbolism of her.
The most read
Fiction
1- “The time of the flies”
Claudia Pineiro
2- “The judge’s list”
John Grisham
3- “Violet”
Isabel Allende
4-“Revolution”
Arturo Perez-Reverte
5- “Everything will get better”
Almudena Grandes
Non-fiction
1-“Stories of the Argentine Belle Époque”
Daniel Balmaceda
2-“The power of words”
Mariano Sigman
3-“Chinese horoscope 2023”
Ludovica Squirru
4-“For what”
Mauricio Macri
5-“Reset your intestines”
Facundo Pereyra
Source: Yenny and El Ateneo bookstores.
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