Dead Girls - by Selva Almada (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Not a police chronicle, not a thriller, but a contemporary noir novel of the ongoing catastrophe of femicide and the murder of three young women in interior of Argentina.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul><li>A timely work of unsettling journalistic fiction that focuses on the apathy towards gender violence and femicide that exists in Argentina. </li><li>Considered a precursor to the #NiUnaMenos movement that tackles gender violence in Latin America, in the vein of #MeToo.</li><li>Almada received an Honor from the Argentine Senate in 2019 for her work to raise awareness of violence against children, adolescents and women.</li><li>First Charco title to be published in US and UK simultaneously.</li><li>TV Rights sold (Argentina)</li></ul><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Almada combines reportage, fiction, and autobiography to explore femicide in Argentina in her acute, unflinching latest. (Starred review) <strong>--Publishers Weekly</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Sara Gallardo and Juan Carlos Onetti, <strong>Selva Almada</strong> (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region. Including her debut _The Wind that Lays Waste, _she has published two novels, a book of short stories, a book of journalistic fiction and a kind of film diary (written in the set of Lucrecia Martel's most recent film <em>Zama</em>, based on Antonio di Benedetto's novel). She has been finalist of the Rodolfo Walsh Award and of the Tigre Juan Award (both in Spain). Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish and Turkish. This is her second book to appear in English after _The Wind that Lays Waste _(Winner of the EIBF First Book Award 2019).</p><p><strong>Annie McDermott</strong>'s published and forthcoming translations include Mario Levrero's <em>Empty Words</em> and <em>The Luminous Novel</em> (And Other Stories and Coffee House Press), <em>Feebleminded</em> by Ariana Harwicz (co-translation with Carolina Orloff, Charco Press) and <em>City of Ulysses</em> by Teolinda Gersão (co-translation with Jethro Soutar, Dalkey Archive Press). Her translations, reviews and essays have appeared in <em>Granta</em>, <em>The White Review</em>, <em>World Literature Today</em>, <em>Asymptote</em>, the <em>Times Literary Supplement</em> and <em>LitHub</em>, among others. Annie also edits books for Charco Press, including Julián Fuks' <em>Resistance</em> and Giuseppe Caputo's <em>An Orphan World</em>. Her translation of Almada's third novel, <em>Brickmakers</em>, will come out with Charco Press and Graywolf in 2021.</p>
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