When Women Kill Las Homicidas Four Crimes Retold 1st Edition Alia Trabucco Zern by Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes (translation) 9781566896412, 156689641X instant download after payment.

Women Who Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes 4 homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the 20th century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives & crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts & victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer & reveals another narrative, one as disturbing & provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, & how do we—readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment—treat them when they do? 

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

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Alia Trabucco Zerán 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 La resta won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Consejo Nacional del Libro de Chile, & was shortlisted for the Man Booker International in 2019. It has been translated into 7 languages. Las homicidas is her 2nd book. 

Sophie Hughes is a British translator of Spanish-language writers such as Alia Trabucco Zerán, Fernanda Melchor, & Enrique Vila-Matas. She has been nominated 3 times for the International Booker Prize, as well as for the Dublin Literary Award, the Valle Inclán Translation Prize,...