Title The fragility of bodies / Sergio Olguín ; translated by Miranda France.

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London : Bitter Lemon Press, 2019.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	M OLGUIN, S.	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Mysteries	MYS OLGUIN	Check Shelf

Description	381 pages ; 20 cm
Note	"First published in Spanish as La fragilidad de los cuerpos by Tusquets Editores Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2012"--Title page verso.
	Translated from the Spanish.
Summary	"When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a junkie in rehab and two street kids willing to risk everything for a can of Coke, she uncovers a group of men involved in betting on working-class youngsters convinced to play Russian roulette by standing in front of fast-coming trains to see who endures the longest."--Provided by publisher.
Subject	Women journalists -- Fiction.
	Murder -- Investigation -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- Fiction.
	Suicide -- Fiction.
	Railroad accidents -- Fiction.
	Corruption -- Fiction.
	Organized crime -- Fiction.
	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
	Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	Corruption. (OCoLC)fst01352550
	Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788
	Organized crime. (OCoLC)fst01047884
	Suicide. (OCoLC)fst01137578
	Women journalists. (OCoLC)fst01178072
	Argentina -- Buenos Aires. (OCoLC)fst01205786
Genre/Form	Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
	Detective and mystery fiction.
	Thrillers (Fiction)
	Argentine fiction -- Translations into English.
Added Author	France, Miranda, 1966- translator.
Added Title	Fragilidad de los cuerpos. English
ISBN	9781912242191 (paperback)
	1912242192 (paperback)

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