Dead Girls

Synopsis

Blending memoir, reportage, and literary nonfiction, Dead Girls revisits the unsolved murders of three young women in provincial Argentina during the early 1980s. As the country emerged from military dictatorship, Andrea Danne, María Luisa Quevedo, and Sarita Mundín were killed in crimes that were never solved and long predated the widespread use of the word femicide. Through meticulous research and personal reflection, Selva Almada reconstructs their stories while exposing the social conditions that allowed violence against women to remain invisible.

Neither true crime nor conventional journalism, Dead Girls is a powerful work of literary investigation that examines memory, justice, and collective silence. Unflinching and deeply humane, it has become one of the defining works of contemporary Latin American nonfiction.

About the Author

Selva Almada is one of Argentina's most acclaimed contemporary writers. Her novels and nonfiction explore rural life, violence, and social inequality with remarkable clarity and emotional force. She is the author of The Wind That Lays Waste, Brickmakers, Not a River, and Dead Girls. This edition is translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott.

Publisher
Charco Press

Publication Date
September 3, 2020

Format
Paperback

Pages
170

Subjects
Literary Nonfiction · True Crime · Argentine Literature · Feminism · Translated Literature

ISBN
9781916277847