It's a sharp thriller about the death of a prostitute that questions our social morality and power relations in our society.
One day, a famous radio journalist receives news of a terrible death: a young woman has just died after falling from a fifth-floor apartment. The apartment where it all happens is owned by an impeccable whoremonger. The girl is what cannot be named.
This is the beginning of La muerte ajena (Alfaguara), the latest book by Claudia Piñeiro (Burzaco, Argentina, 1960), a thriller that—as always happens with the winner of the Dashiell Hammett Crime Novel Award—is much more than a mere narrative that skillfully blends intrigue and suspense.
The plots of power and desire. The makers of the far right and sex workers. Family secrets. What the news says and what it doesn't say. And—here, before you—Piñeiro, without mincing her words.
