Time of the Flies

Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena Knows
Fifteen years after killing her husband's lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they've started a business - FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies - dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, one of their clients, wants Inés to do more than kill bugs - she wants her expertise, and her criminal past, to help her kill her husband's lover, too. Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other--this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.

About the author

Born in Buenos Aires in 1960, Claudia Piñeiro is a best-selling author, known internationally for her novels that, while rooted in the crime genre, frequently address social issues. She has won numerous national and international prizes, including the Pepe Carvalho Prize, the LiBeraturpreis for Elena Knows and the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las grietas de Jara (A Crack in the Wall). Many of her novels have been adapted for the screen, including Elena Knows, Thursday Night Widows, and Time of the Flies . Piñeiro is the third most translated Argentinian author after Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. She's also a playwright and scriptwriter (including for popular Netflix series The Kingdom ). Her novel Elena Knows was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Pineiro, Claudia Piñeiro
• Assisted by: Frances Riddle (Translation), Riddle Frances (Translation)
• Publisher: BookSource
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781913867867
• ISBN: 978-1-913867-86-7
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Crime & mystery, Argentina, Fiction in translation, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Social issues, Crime and mystery fiction