G1153 Book Review of The Fragility of Bodies by Sergio Olguin
Name of Book: the fragility of bodies Author: Sergio OLGUIN (translated by Miranda France) ISBN: 978-1-912242-19-1 Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press Part of a Series: Veronica Rosenthal Trilogy Type of book: Argentina, trains, mystery, journalism, 2000s, poverty, wealth, connections, South America, daily life, Buenos Aires, coca cola, soccer Year it was published: 2019 (original 2012) 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 reckles...