When Women Kill by Trabucco Zerán, Alia

When Women Kill (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566896337)

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When Women Kill by Trabucco Zerán, Alia

When Women Kill

$16.95
When Women Kill by Trabucco Zerán, Alia

When Women Kill

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.

When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zer疣 offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we--readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment--treat them when they do?

Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zer疣 (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes, brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women.

Author: Alia Trabucco Zer疣
ISBN-10: 1566896339
ISBN-13: 9781566896337
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
By Alia Trabucco Zer疣
By Alia Trabucco Zer疣
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Alia Trabucco Zer疣 was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a master's in creative writing in Spanish at New York University, where she wrote her debut novel La resta (The Remainder). La resta won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Consejo Nacional del Libro de Chile, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International in 2019. It has been translated into seven languages. Las homicidas is her second book. She lives between Santiago and London.

Sophie Hughes is a British translator of Spanish-language writers such as Alia Trabucco Zer疣, Fernanda Melchor and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been nominated three times for the International Booker Prize, as well as for the Dublin Literary Award, the Valle Incl疣 Translation Prize, the National Book Award in Translation, the PEN Translation Prize, the National Translation Award in Prose, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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