Cathedrals

A teenage girl is found burned and dismembered in an abandoned lot. Thirty years later, the crime remains unsolved and her family and those around her have fallen apart.

Technical details

Age: Adults Date: 43833 Dimensions: 15 X 23.5 X 1.5 Pages: 336 Language: ES

About the author

Claudia Piñeiro was born in Greater Buenos Aires in 1960. She is a writer, playwright, TV scriptwriter, and contributor to various print media. She has published the novels Las viudas de los jueves, Tuya, Elena sabe, Las grietas de Jara, Betibú, Un comunista en calzoncillos, Una suerte pequeña, Las maldiciones, and Catedrales. In 2018, Alfaguara published her collected short stories in Quién no, and in 2021, a volume of her plays, Cuánto vale una heladera y otros textos de teatro. For her literary, theatrical, and journalistic work, she has received various national and international awards, including the Premio Clarín de Novela, the Premio LiBeraturpreis, the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Premio Rosalía de Castro from PEN (Poets, Essayists, and Novelists Club of Galicia), the Premio Pepe Carvalho from the Barcelona Negra Festival, the Premio Dashiell Hammett from the Semana Negra de Gijón, the Premio Negra y Criminal from the Tenerife Noir Festival, the Premio Best Novel from the Valencia Negra Festival, and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2022 with the English translation of Elena sabe. As co-author, along with Marcelo Piñeyro, of the TV series El reino, she won the Premio Platino for Best Series Creators. Several of her novels have been adapted into films. She is one of the most translated Argentine writers into other languages, making her books read and enjoyed by thousands of readers worldwide.