#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]

[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

[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.

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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 (⭐)

[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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[importantwomensbirthdays]

Claudia Piñeiro

Claudia Piñeiro was born in 1960 in Burzaco, Argentina. Piñeiro is known for her crime novels, which are bestsellers in Latin America and throughout the world. She won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel A Crack in the Wall, and her novel Elena Knows was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

[misespinas]

Literature I want to read;

Sci-fi...

The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner

The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Star Rover by Jack London

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Realistic Fiction...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

Girls At War by Chinua Achebe

Another Country by James Baldwin

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet

The Plague by Albert Camus

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

My Year of Sleep and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Pina by Titaua Peu

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter

Native Son by Richard Wright

Psychological/Horror...

Flowers In the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

The Between by Tananarive Due

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

Out by Natsuo Kirino

Piercing by Ryu Murakami

Foe by lain Reid

Cows by Matthew Stokoe

Feminist Literature...

Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector

Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Meridian by Alice Walker

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

Short Stories...

“Vengeful Creditor” by Chinua Achebe

“The Guest” by Albert Camus

“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver

“Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin

“Investigations of a Dog” by Franz Kafka

“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville

“Galatea” by Madeline Miller

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor

“Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx

“The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Anthologies...

Konundrum by Franz Kafka

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Plays...

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

An Enemy of the People by Arthur Miller

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson

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Last Song: Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience

Three Ships: Zolu, Midzelink, Dikkory

Currently Reading: I just finished a novel called ‘Tuya’ by Claudia Piñeiro. A friend read it for school and recommended it, said the drama was really good (and it really was).

Last Movie: Interstellar. I watched it for the first time at a sleepover… and yeah it’s as fantastic as people say

Craving: Sushi. Or maybe poke, so long as it has salmon or tuna in it. It’s the taste of raw fish I’m craving

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[poirot]

i’d recommend “we have always lived in this castle” by shirley jackson or “elena knows” by claudia piñeiro - based on your description i think you would like these books :)

thank you so much for the recommendations!! I actually read ‚we have always lived in the castle‘ already but I haven’t heard of ‚elena knows‘ before and it sounds like it’s right up my alley ahh definitely gonna read that one soon!!

[olreid]

3, 4, & 7 for the reading asks!

3. Any poetry on your TBR?

answered : )

4. Do you plan to read any genres you haven't read much before?

honestly no lol. i already read a wide range of stuff and the few genres i don’t like i tend to avoid.. but you never know!!

7. What languages do you plan to read in? Do you want to read anything in translation?

guy who can also only really read in english :/ some of the translated stuff i want to read: elena knows by claudia piñeiro (translated from the spanish), frankenstein in baghdad by ahmed saadawi (translated from the arabic), the factory by hiroko oyamada (translated from the japanese), convenience store woman by sayaka murata (translated from the japanese), the wall by marlen haushoffer (translated from the german), the general in his labyrinth by gabriel garcía márquez (translated from the spanish), pedro páramo by juan rulfo (translated from the spanish)... this also may be the year i break into russian literature in translation but ive tried and failed before so i dont want to get my hopes up