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When Women Kill (in English)
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Synopsis "When Women Kill (in English)"
A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we--readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment--treat them when they do? Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zerán (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes, brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women.
Alia Trabucco Zerán (Santiago de Chile, 1983) estudió Derecho en la Universidad de Chile, un máster en Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y un doctorado en Literatura Hispanoamericana en el University College London. En 2015 publicó La resta, uno de los debuts más importantes del año según El País, que fue finalista del Man Booker International y del LiBeraturpreis 2023 en Alemania y le valió el Premio Mejor Novela Inédita del Ministerio de las Culturas de Chile, que volvió a obtener con Limpia (Lumen, 2023), en traducción en diecisiete países. En 2022 se le otorgó el Premio Anna Seghers por su trayectoria literaria y quedó finalista en el National Book Critics Circle Award. Lumen publicó también Las homicidas en 2019, que ha recibido el Premio de la British Academy 2022, y ahora La resta.
