#claudia piñeiro

[thewavesbrokeontheshore]

Elena Knows (2023) dir. by Anahí Berneri

[dane-zaboravim]

– Čudno je, nemoj mi reći da nije. Mislila sam da ću te nazvati i da ćeš mi izrecitirati pet, deset, čak i petnaest zgrada na popisu najdražih stvari kakav svi imamo.

– Svi imamo popise najdražih stvari?

– Da, a što, ti nemaš?

– I čega ima na tvom popisu?

– Želiš čuti čega ima?

– Da.

– Dobro. Na prvom je mjestu čokolada, na drugom šetnja bez kišobrana po upornoj kišici koja te bocka u lice. Znaš o kakvoj ti kišici govorim, zar ne?

– Mislim da da – odgovori Pablo, ali ona mu svejedno objasni:

– Ona za koju se čini da baca kose vodene iglice. E, takva kišica – reče i zastane trenutak prije nego što će nastaviti: – Treće ću mjesto preskočiti, a na četvrtom je...

– Zašto preskačeš treće mjesto? – prekine je Pablo.

– Ne poznajemo se tako dobro – odgovori ona. – Kad se bolje upoznamo, reći ću ti.

Jarine pukotine, Claudia Piñeiro

[justforbooks]

Η Ινές, μια νοικοκυρά της μεγαλοαστικής τάξης, ανακαλύπτει ότι ο άντρας της την απατά. Μετά το πρώτο σοκ, θα αποδυθεί σε μια αγωνιώδη προσπάθεια προκειμένου να πείσει τον εαυτό της (και τους αναγνώστες) ότι τα πάντα εξακολουθούν να είναι τέλεια στον επίπλαστο μικρόκοσμο του γάμου της. Δε θα διστάσει μπροστά σε τίποτα προκειμένου να κρατήσει τα προσχήματα που επιβάλλει η κοινωνία και ο ρόλος της. Πέρα από ένα αριστοτεχνικά δουλεμένο ψυχολογικό θρίλερ, το “Δικιά σου για Πάντα” είναι μια γεμάτη ειρωνεία και χιούμορ κριτική της υποκρισίας που σε μεγάλο βαθμό αποτελεί τον συνεκτικό ιστό του θεσμού της σύγχρονης μεγαλοαστικής (και όχι μόνο) οικογένειας.

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[wildestivy8]

[cinnamon-spark]

Μπέτι Μπου, Claudia Piñeiro

[litandroses]

Very late post but here are my favorite reads of 2024 🫶

(* = reread)

[unpatioclub]

“Este volumen reúne todos los cuentos y textos breves escritos por la autora a lo largo de los años, donde va dando cuenta de los temas que siempre le interesan: los secretos familiares, las cosas no dichas, los silencios, las relaciones de pareja y entre padres e hijos, las dificultades de comunicación en nuestra sociedad, los miedos que se ocultan en todas las personas, y también los miedos que afloran sorpresivamente y nos llevan a situaciones impensadas”.

[downthetubes]

Monica Ali, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Claudia Piñeiro and Jamie Smart named Authors of the Fair at London Book Fair 2025

Current Waterstones Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce and comic creator Jamie Smart have been announced as two of the "Authors of London Book Fair" 2025, along with novelists Monica Ali and Claudia Piñeiro

[alfabetas]

“¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?” ―Claudia Piñeiro

#ElenaSabe

#BriseidaAlcalá  #ComoYEscribo

[papenathys]

Hey Mimi do you have any recommendations for books set in Latin America (any genre) ?

So I am going to assume that you are not asking for picks like Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Isabel Allende. Most of the Latinx authors I read are unfortunately fantasy or genre fiction set in the USA (I'm trying to remember if Tehlor Kay Mejia or Anna-Marie McLemore wrote a book that is explicitly set in a Latin American country.)

Here are a couple of books I enjoyed, or at least feel confident recommending based on what I remember:

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (adult, urban fantasy, horror): Described by the author as a "violent neo-noir", this story is set in an alternate, gritty Mexico City, and follows a Tlāhuihpochtli vampire who strikes a bond with an impoverished street kid, while fleeing from narco-vampire clans, criminal gangs, and other dangers lurking in the dark underbelly of the city.

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (adult, historical fiction, fantasy): In 1920s Mexico, a young woman accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan God of Death, and embarks on a cross-country mission with him: from the dazzling Jazz Age opulence of Mexico City, into the darkness of the Mayan underworld– where she must face great dangers to reinstate the God on his rightful throne.

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia** (adult, historical fiction, horror): A glamorous, fun-loving socialite in 1950s Mexico receives a disturbing letter from her married cousin, prompting her to travel down to their ancestral mansion, where the in-laws' live. There, on that ancient, colonial estate, she begins to be haunted by an equally ancient evil, and soon realises something is terribly wrong about the family her cousin has married into.

Tender is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica** (adult, dystopia, horror): In a near-dystopian future, an infectious virus turns all animal meat poisonous and unfit for consumption, forcing governments to legalize the factory-farming, breeding and eating of human meat. At one such processing plant, a worker is faced with a moral dilemma when he is gifted a "live" specimen.

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (adult, psychological thriller): Set in Argentina, this is a claustrophobic, uneasy novella about a mother's journey to uncover the truth behind the hushed-up murder of her dead daughter; the investigative mission, however, is made difficult by her advanced locomotive disability and age, as well as by this slowly unfurling realization: that she may not have known her daughter as truly as she thought.

And a couple I have not read/read and did not enjoy at all, but would recommend because my opinion seems to be in the minority:

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda** (adult, horror, thriller, LGBTQ): A group of wealthy teenage girls attending an elite academy in Ecuador begin to convene regularly in an abandoned building, after school hours– but what started out as a place to exchange ghost stories, soon devolves into a site of dangerous thrill-seeking and dark, bloody rituals. (Note: I absolutely despised it, but you may enjoy; it's sapphic dark academia with cosmic horror and yellowjackets vibes).

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez (adult, horror, historical fiction, fantasy): Set partially during the years of Argentina's brutal military dictatorship, this novel follows a father and son on a road trip, trying to escape a death cult, who have committed unspeakable atrocities. I have not read this gigantic tome, but I really want to, I am a sucker for horror rooted in political/historical allegories.

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis (adult, historical fiction, LGBTQ): In 1977 Uruguay, a time when oppressive militia rule criminalized homosexuality as a dangerous transgression, five queer women discover an uninhabited cape, and claim the coastal sanctuary for themselves. Over years, it becomes their one safe haven, to be their true selves. Not read this, but it sounds strikingly similar to Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, one of my favourite queer stories of all time.

[ Note: All the stories are adult and given my inclination towards horror and psychological fiction, they are likely to be dealing with sensitive issues, but for the stories marked ** I very highly recommend checking trigger warnings ]

[somerabbitholes]

The first few books this year have been coincidentally red. With Tom Holland’s Dominion, I’ve found myself reading history that I’m not entirely familiar with and that isn’t strictly my business or about me. In other words, I’ve been able to have pure fun with this one. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro pierced through me. I’ve often described books as cascading, and this was one of them. Finally, addressing my fascination with archives: the Asia Society’s 1968 issue of its journal, Contemporary India. The issues it contends with are at once similar, familiar, and so far away: foodgrain shortages, Cold War rivalries, and India’s border disputes.

[dane-zaboravim]

Ali sutra ujutro, kad bude dovoljno prirodnog svjetla, pozabavit će se svojim dugom prema Leonor, izići iz kuće ranije nego obično i prošetati ulicama Buenos Airesa. Sam sebi to obeća. Sutra neće zaroniti u podzemnu koja bi ga vozila gradom koji više i ne gleda; ne, sutra će ići pješice ili autobusom – sigurno postoji linija koja direktno povezuje njegovu kuću i ured, umjesto uobičajene potkove kojom svakodnevno putuje pod zemljom – prijeći će taj put površinom zemlje te će na taj način moći podići pogled i promatrati sve ono što mu ulica može ponuditi. Lunjat će posvuda poput tragača za blagom, ali bez karte, bez zadanih koordinata, bez pripremljenih podataka i uputa, prepuštajući se sudbini, dopuštajući da ga nevidljiva ruka usmjerava gradom, vodi ga da pronađe ono što do tog trenutka nije ni znao da je izgubio.

Jarine pukotine, Claudia Piñeiro

[justforbooks]

Η Άννα Σαρδά ήταν δεκαεφτά χρονών, καλή μαθήτρια και από αξιοσέβαστη καθολική οικογένεια. Το πτώμα της βρέθηκε καμένο και τεμαχισμένο σε μια αλάνα κοντά στο σπίτι της. Τριάντα χρόνια αργότερα, η ταυτότητα του δράστη εξακολουθεί να αγνοείται. Τα ίχνη της απώλειας έχουν στιγματίσει με διαφορετικό τρόπο και σε διαφορετικό βαθμό τα μέλη της οικογένειάς της.

Εφτά αφηγηματικές φωνές, εφτά άνθρωποι που σχετίζονταν με την Άννα, προσφέρουν τη δική τους εκδοχή για όσα συνέβησαν τη μέρα του θανάτου της, αφήνοντας να πέφτουν σαν κουρέλια κομμάτια απ’ τα μυστικά τους. Παρότι οι τύψεις, οι οιμωγές τους και τα αναπόφευκτα mea culpa τους θα μπορούσαν να απευθύνονται στον εξομολόγο τους, η αξιοπιστία τους δεν πρέπει να θεωρείται δεδομένη.

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[ongreenergrasses]

fic(tion)back Friday

tagged by @thelettersfromnoone, thank you 💜 you know me, I don’t do fic recs (although if you come in my DMs and I’m in a good mood you might get something out of me, lol) but here’s the list of fiction books I have on hold/loan from the library that I haven’t read before, I’m picking up some today:

Antarctica by Claire Keegan

All Fours by Miranda July

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

Rushing to Paradise by JG Ballard

Violeta by Isabel Allende

La espía by Paulo Coehlo

Las viudas de los jueves by Claudia Piñeiro

some of these were rec’d by you guys for which I’m very grateful, excited to report back with impressions

tagging whoever would like to share their fic and/or fiction reading list for this week! @districtunrest @mariigoldzz @girlpathetica @meekmedea @mendingbone @anniecrest4 if any of you are interested I’m curious about what you’re reading 👀

[embossross]

2023 in books: fiction edition

literary fiction published 2013-2023 (based on English translation)

The Employees by Olga Ravn (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Human Acts by Han Kang (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Bunny by Mona Awad (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

All Your Children Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mister N by Najwa Barakat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Brickmakers by Selva Almada (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

True Biz by Sara Nović (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abyss by Pilar Quintana (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Rombo by Esther Kinsky (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (⭐⭐⭐)

The Sky Above the Roof by Natacha Appanah (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (⭐⭐⭐)

Luster by Raven Leilani (⭐⭐⭐)

Solo Dance by Li Kotomi (⭐⭐⭐)

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (⭐⭐⭐)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (⭐⭐⭐)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon (⭐⭐⭐)

Afterlives by Abdurazak Gurnah (⭐⭐⭐)

Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Indelicacy by Amina Cain (⭐⭐⭐)

Out of Love by Hazel Hayes (⭐⭐⭐)

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (⭐⭐⭐)

The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga (⭐⭐⭐)

The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (⭐⭐)

The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore (⭐⭐)

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst (⭐⭐)

Nervous System by Lina Meruane (⭐⭐)

Owlish by Dorothy Tse (⭐⭐)

The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis (⭐⭐)

The Magic of Discovery by Britt Andrews (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2012

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Corregidora by Gayl Jones (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Open City by Teju Cole (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kōno (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Perestroika by Tony Kushner *a play (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Queen Pokou by Véronique Tadjo (⭐⭐⭐)

The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (⭐⭐⭐)

Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid (⭐⭐⭐)

Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan (⭐⭐⭐)

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (⭐⭐⭐)

Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith (⭐⭐⭐)

Curtain by Agatha Christie (⭐⭐⭐)

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (⭐⭐⭐)

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (⭐⭐⭐)

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (⭐⭐⭐)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (⭐⭐⭐)

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (⭐⭐)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (⭐⭐)

The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada (⭐⭐)

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (⭐)

literary fiction published start of time-1970

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 The Stranger by Albert Camus (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Stoner by John Williams (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (⭐⭐⭐)

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hole by José Revueltas (⭐⭐⭐)

Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (⭐⭐⭐)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (⭐⭐)

Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist (⭐)