With an introduction by Colm ToibinIn 1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and Maria de Jesus Gonzalez, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape. The Dead Girls is the discovery of these young women, buried in the back yard. In the laconic tones of a police report, Jorge Ibarguengoitia investigates these horrific murders and their motives. A black comedy, both moving and cruelly funny, Ibarguengoitia's work is a potent and entertaining blend of sex and mayhem.

The Dead Girls

IBARGÜENGOITIA, JORGE

Literature & Fiction

Avon/Books

Set against a backdrop of political repression, secret police, informants, and maddening bureaucracy, this is the story of two Mexico City murders and how they are solved

Two Crimes

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The Lightning of August

The Lightening of August

British & Irish

Chatto&Windus

Two Crimes (English and Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

David R. Godine, Publisher

Serafina Baladro and her sister run a successful brothel business in a small town, so successful that they begin to expand. But when business starts to falter, life in the brothel turns ugly, and girls start disappearing. Based on real events, the story of serial-killing brothel owners Delfina and María de Jésus González, whose crimes were uncovered in 1964, The Dead Girls is a deliciously satirical black comedy—a potent blend of sex and mayhem. Written in the laconic tones of a police report, it cleverly uncovers the hopeless pedantry of a broken justice system, and the dark world of prostitution.

The Dead Girls (Picador Classic)

Literary

Picador

Las muertas

Booket Planeta

Misterios de la vida diaria

Editorial Planeta Mexicana, S.A. de C.V.

Relampagos de agosto, Los

Joaquin Mortiz

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