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Dead girls

ISBN: 9781916277847
ISBN: 1916277845
Physical Description: print iii, 146 pages ; 20 cm.
Publisher: Edinburgh, Scotland : Charco Press, 2020.

Almada, Selva 1973- (author.). McDermott, Annie, (translator.).

Summary: Evoking with intimate first-hand knowledge the heat and dust of provincial Argentina, with all its secrets and conflicting loyalties, Almada tells the stories of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the early 1980s, as the country was celebrating its return to democracy. Three deaths that were never brought to justice and occurred long before the term 'femicide' became widely known: nineteen-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; fifteen-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and twenty-year old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body washed up on a river bank. In this brutal yet deeply important book, Selva Almada weaves these and other cases of violence against women into a clear-eyed, multi-faceted account that has global resonance.