When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
by Alia Trabucco Zerán & Sophie Hughes (translator)
*** Winner of the 2022 British Academy Book Prize ***
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“It is wholly original. It’s the unpicking of four rather mundane but awful stories of acts of killing involving women. It’s taking the events of many decades ago and reviewing them with reference to a new set of understandings and the values of today. This book has a particular gendered aspect that is incredibly significant in explaining to us the circumstances in which, in Chile, society came down like a ton of bricks on individual women who, for one reason or another, found themselves in a situation in which they were involved in an act of killing…It’s also sublimely written.” Read more...
The British Academy Book Prize: 2022 Shortlist
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