The Fragility of Bodies

After hearing about the suspicious suicide of a local train driver, Buenos Aires journalist Veronica Rosenthal investigates and soon finds herself in an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives.

About the author

Sergio Olguín was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and was a journalist before turning to fiction. Olguín has won a number of awards, among others the Premio Tusquets 2009 for his novel Oscura monótona sangre ("Dark Monotonous Blood") His books have been translated into German, French and Italian. The Fragility of Bodies is his first novel to be translated into English.

Summary

Veronica Rosenthal is a successful young journalist with a healthy appetite for men and bourbon. She decides to investigate the suicide of a train driver in Buenos Aires involved in the supposed accidental death of young men hit by his locomotive at speed.

Product details

• Authors: Sergio Olguin
• Assisted by: Miranda France (Translation)
• Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781912242191
• ISBN: 978-1-912242-19-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Buenos Aires, FICTION / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives