“The conclusion I reached by my second week in court was this: we women are dying like flies. You men get hammered and kill us. Men want to fuck and kill us. Men get enraged and kill us. Men want a bit of fun and kill us. Men discover our lovers and kill us. We leave them and men kill us. Men get another lover and kill us. Men are taken down a peg and kill us. Men get home tired after work and kill us. And, in court, everyone says the fault is ours.”
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman o Pila de mujeres, su título original, combina el thriller criminal, el comentario social y el realismo mágico para confrontar la epidemia de feminicidios en Brasil.
Ambientada en la ciudad fronteriza amazónica de Cruzeiro do Sul, la historia sigue a una joven abogada que viaja a la remota región de Acre para investigar el caso de la violación y el asesinato de Txupira, al tiempo que huye de su propia relación abusiva.
Fue un libro muy duro para empezar el año. Altamente recomendado; solo asegúrate de revisar las advertencias de contenido.
“It’s ridiculous to think that a murderer would even worry about the post-mortem! The system is made so it doesn’t work. From the top down, whoever’s investigating will look at the victim with contempt: just another woman, he’ll think. A Black girl. A street girl. An object. He won’t even pick up when the phone rings in the den he calls his office. Let the incident go to the next man.”
⚠️ TW: descripciones gráficas de agresion, violacion, mutilacion, tortura y asesinato.
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