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#Mercedes Rosende #Mujer equivocada #tapas de libros

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Lecturas de marzo. Cuarta semana

Lágrimas de cocodrilo / Mercedes Rosende. Editorial Alrevés, 2024 Germán, un eterno perejil, sale de la cárcel con un encargo: el asalto a un camión blindado. Una sucesión de casualidades le depara la ayuda de Úrsula López, mujer con la que estuvo involucrado en el secuestro que lo llevó a prisión. Pero esta mujer, a la que la muerte y la gula no le son ajenas, antes necesita resolver algunas…

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#"el golpe" #aerostatos #Amélie Nothomb #Úrsula López #Berta Dávila #Colin Barrett #eclipse #hermanas #Irlanda #Lectura #Mercedes Rosende #relatos

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The Hand that Feeds You, Mercedes Rosende Review

The Hand that Feeds You is the eighth exhilarating, dark thriller by Mercedes Rosende, and the second of her trilogy featuring a forceful and impressive female detective. Not all thrillers have to feature gory murders and balding, divorced, alcoholic private investigators! Though if you are thinking of visiting Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay . . . of maybe checking out its magnificent Theatre…

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#crime fiction in translation #psychological thriller #south american literature #women writers

[fictionfromafar]

The Hand That Feeds You by Mercedes Rosende

The Hand That Feeds You

By Mercedes Rosende

Translated by Tim Gutteridge

Bitter Lemon Press

Publication Date: 23 February 2023

#RandomTTours

It does seem quite some time since Mercedes Rosende’s English language debut, Crocodile Tears was published in January 2021 – or perhaps in my case, it is due to the large number of books I have read since. So It was quite easy to start this book with an open mind. While this novel almost immediately follows the events of the previous book, I don’t believe it is actually a prerequisite to read it first. The basic background required is that the main protagonist Ursula Lopez, a middle aged, middle-sized woman managed, Ursula to outwit some dangerous criminals and acquire millions of stolen pesos. However, she faces a waiting game as her honest (by the standards of a robber) and meek (also for a robber’s standards) accomplice Diego acquires the courage to resurface and touch base with her as he is the one concealing the physical cash.

As Ursula attempts to remain patient, both the police and the criminals are unrelenting in their attempts to recover the loot. Moreover, she has an increasingly curious sister Luz who is keen to establish exactly what Ursula is hiding.

This book makes a change from the norm of crime fiction as there is no whodunnit and our hero Ursula isn’t looking to return the money or do anything noble. She simply wants it for her own purposes. So the mystery is all about what will happen which gives the book its intrigue.

Although there are police officers of very different virtues, Inspector Clemin and Captain Lima, the reader is drawn to wish that their mission ends in failure. While the crooked lawyer Antinucci set up the armoured car heist is unable to determine who swindled him out of millions, he’s reliant upon the brute who carried out the raise Hobo to identify him. Unfortunately for him, Hobo is in a coma and under police guard.

When Diego finally does reach out to Ursula, this interaction sparks off a chain of events for which the outcome is uncertain for all parties.

Through her translator Tim Gutteridge, Mercedes Rosende has an amusingly descriptive way of describing the scenarios that her characters find themselves in and the people that they meet. This keeps the writing feeling very fresh and I felt as a reader very attached to the narrative. It helps maintain a high level of interest in the outcome of the novel and the fate of its various characters. There is a lot going on in this story, which is told from a range of perspectives, but I found it fully engrossing. Depictions of Montevideo and some of its recent history is explored while the author has a very astute ability to create strong female protagonists. The Hand That Feed You is, I feel, a more substantial piece of work than Crocodile Tears. This a very worthy addition to the finest of Bitter Lemon’ Press’ Latin American collection, which I hope continues to grow:; and ultimately this is a very rewarding read.

Many thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for inclusion on the blog tour and to Bitter Lemon Press for an advance copy of this book. Please look out for the other reviews as shown below.

The blurb

The attempted robbery of the armoured car in the back streets of Montevideo is a miserable failure. A lucky break for the intrepid Ursula Lopez who manages to snatch all the loot, more hindered than helped by her faint-hearted and reluctant companion Diego. Only now, the wannabe robbers are hot on her heels. As is the police. And Ursula's sister. But Ursula turns out to be enormously talented when it comes to criminal undertakings, and given the hilarious ineptitude of those in pursuit, she might just pull it off. She is an irresistible heroine. A murderess with a sense of humour, a lovable criminal with an edge and she is practically invisible to the men who dominate the deeply macho society of Uruguay.

The Author: Mercedes Rosende was born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a lawyer and a journalist when not writing fiction. She has won many prizes for her novels and short stories. In 2005 she won the Premio Municipal de Narrativa für Demasiados Blues, in 2008 the National Literature Prize for La Muerte Tendrá tus Ojos and in 2019 the LiBeraturpreis in Germany for Crocodile Tears.

The Translator: Tim Gutteridge is a Scottish literary translator based in Edinburgh. He works from Spanish and Catalan into English. His translation of Potosí (Ander Izagirre) won a PEN Translates Award and was published by Zed Books as The Mountain that Eats Men.

#crime fiction #crimeintranslation #crime fiction in translation #latinamericancrimefiction

[philosophenstreik]

krokodilstränen

kriminalroman

von mercedes rosende

erschienen 2018

im unionsverlag

isbn: 978-3-293-00536-5

(von tobias bruns)

ein ungewöhnlicher kriminalroman...

montevideo ist der ort, an dem es zu einem brutalen überfall auf einen geldtransporter kommt. körperteile liegen herum... eine gruppe um eine gewisse úrsula begeht diesen überfall - alle haben auf ihre art und weise ihre eigene agenda. dazu kommt ein anwalt, der mittendrin statt nur dabei ist, mit der spezialität jedem aus dem knast zu bekommen. ermittelt wird mal und mal nicht von leonilda lima, einer kommissarin, die in einer extrem korrupten welt noch an das gute glaubt...

wie anfangs bereits erwähnt: ein ungewöhnlicher kriminalroman...

úrsula... was eine persönlichkeit, welch persönlichkeiten... antinucci... ein anwalt wie er in keinem buche steht (außer diesem)... viele wirren führen durch diesen roman, der dadurch immer wieder aufs neue überrascht.

rosende hat eine kleine kriminelle welt montevideos geschaffen, bei der man sich tatsächlich fragt, ob sie wirklich auch nur rein theoretisch wahr sein könnte. ein kurzweiliger uruguayischer krimi, etwas verrückt, etwas komisch und am ende... nun ja - eine sehr kurze rezension. alles in allem: überraschend gut!

#krokodilstränen #tobias bruns #philosophenstreik #mercedes rosende #unionsverlag #kriminalroman

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Mercedes Rosende - Falsche Ursula

Mercedes Rosende – Falsche Ursula

Mercedes Rosende – Falsche ursula Ursula ist frustriert. Sie hat Übergewicht, fühlt sich hässlich und ihre Nachbarin mit den lauten hochhackigen Schuhen nervt sie auch. Ganz anders ihre Schwester Luz, die schon als Kind von den Eltern bevorzugt wurde. Als sie einen Anruf erhält, stutzt sie, angeblich wurde ihr Ehemann entführt und sie soll Lösegeld beschaffen. Was für ein Mann? Sie beginnt zu…

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#Übergewicht #Entführung #Falsche ursula #Frau #Geschäftsmann #Krimi #Mercedes Rosende #Montevideo #Rezension #Roman #Schwester #Uruguay #Wendung

[screwtheprinceimtakingthehorse]

»FALSCHE URSULA«, Mercedes Rosende Übersetzung/Translation: Peter Kultzen Ich lese sehr viele Übersetzungen, sowohl auf Deutsch als auch auf Englisch (manchmal sogar beide Übersetzungen desselben Buchs); dies hier kommt aus dem Spanischen. Ich weiß nicht, ob es auch auf Englisch erscheinen wird, aber ich hoffe es sehr. Es ist herrlich. Die Handlung & Dialoge sind wunderbar absurd, und die Protagonistin stellt sich als überaus ab- und tiefgründig heraus. Lest weiter, und es werden sich Abgründe auftun.

#krimis #buchrezension #buchempfehlung #german stuff

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mw fcs?

I’m going to pull my cliche admin pass and say whatever face you have muse for!! But if you’d like some suggestions, here’s a few canon characters & some face claims I’d love to see on the dash starting tomorrow night!

Santana Lopez (alt. face claim required), Mercedes Jones, Rachel Berry, Mike Chang, Jake Puckerman, Tina Cohen-Chang, Jacob Elordi, Sofia Carson, Zachary Levi, Casey Deidrick, Keith Powers, Keiynan Lonsdale, Candice Patton, Mena Massoud, Alberto Rosende, Ross Lynch, Karla Souza, Jamie Chung, Booboo Stewart, Chloe Bennet and so many more!

We also have a bunch of wanted connections we’d love to see filled, some with suggested faces and many that are completely up to you! Hopefully this little list was helpful, but feel free to ask if you’re still unsure!

#ihq.faq #ihq.mw #glee rp #Anonymous

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Si no fuera por las feministas vos no votabas ni estudiabas, no salías a la calle sola, no manejabas, te hacían cortar las falanges cuando moría un pariente o te obligaban a cubrirte de cenizas el pelo y la ropa, no elegías tus parejas, y no había “tus parejas” sino un marido que alguien te imponía, si no fuera por las feministas tus hijos no eran tuyos sino del padre, y si trabajabas era como obrera explotada, o en trabajos pocos calificados o directamente como esclava.

No elegirías tu propia sexualidad. Porque si no fuera por ellas vos no serías dueña de tu cuerpo ni de tu mente, ni siquiera de tus propios hijos ni de tu fuerza laboral. 

Cuando reniegues de esas mujeres, acuérdate que sin ellas vos no te divorciarias ni te podrías hacer un aborto, que un marido o padre o hijo manejaría tu dinero, y que tendrías que tener tantos hijos como quisiera otra persona, tu dueño.

Cuando digas que vos no sos “feminista sino femenina” pensá donde estaríamos todas si algunas no hubieran pensado diferente, y por favor, cállate la boca.

Mercedes Rosende.

#feminismo #mujeres #lucha

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mw fcs?

CANONS:

CHORD OVERSTREET [  SAM EVANS ]

BLAKE JENNER [ RYDER LYNN ]

MELISSA BENOIST [ MARLEY ROSE ]

AMBER RILEY [ MERCEDES JONES ]

VANESSA LENGIES [ SUGAR MOTTA ]

JONATHAN GROFF [ JESSE ST. JAMES ]

JACOB ARTIST [ JAKE PUCKERMAN ]

BILLY LEWIS JR. [ MASON MCCARTHY ]

MALE FC:

Matthew Daddario

Noah Centineo

Jordan Fish

Keiynan Lonsdale

Keahu Kahuanui

Rome Flynn 

Christian Navarro

Avan Jogia

Miles Heizer

Jordan Connor

Charles Melton

Michael Evans Behling

Trevor Jackson

Keith Powers

Alberto Rosende

Michael Trevino 

Jeremy Jordan

Dominic Sherwood

Cody Fern

Ansel Elgort

Nick Robinson

Dylan O'Brien

Dylan Sprayberry

FEMALE FC:

Nicole Maines ( please remember that this is a trans female and be sure to keep gender identity intact)

Ryan Destiny

Hayley Law

Kat Graham

Logan Browning

Samantha Logan

Candice Patton

China Anne McClain

Kylie Bunbury

Amber Stevens West

Zendaya Coleman

Dove Cameron

Holland Roden

Crystal Reed

Shelley Hennig

Arden Cho

Lindsey Morgan

Emeraude Toubia

Danna Paola

Isabella Gomez

Janel Parrish

Shay Mitchell

Bianca Santos

Sofia Carson

Victoria Justice

Cierra Ramirez

Nathalie Kelley

I hope that helps.

#long post #answered #faq #Anonymous #glee #glee rp #glee roleplay #glee rpg #glee twins rp #glee siblings rp #glee appless rp #appless rp

[peru-reiseveranstalter-lima]

Lateinamerikanische Kriminalromane

Was verbindet Jorge Luis Borges, Claudia Piñeiro, Guillermo Martínez, Mercedes Rosende, Sergio Ramírez und Leonardo Padura? Sie alle beherrschen auch das Genre des lateinamerikanischen Kriminalromans, dem Peter B. Schumann (Förderkreis des IAI) sein neues Hörfunk-Feature gewidmet hat: Der süße Duft des Mordes – so der Deutschlandfunk-Kultur-Titel. Zum Nachhören hier. Foto: ©Jeanette Erazo…

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#Krimi #Mord #Roman

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En esta ocasión nos acompañan Marcia Collazo, Hugo Achugar, Mercedes Rosende y Fernando Butazzoni. Abril 2021Fundación Mario Benedetti (Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) Relacionados Mesa rectangular. Historias de la performance en Uruguay – Gustavo Blázquez Escritores exterminadores de escritores Escritores en su tinta – Horacio Cavallo Whatsapp – 25 escritores – una novela El […]

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Lecturas de agosto. Cuarta semana

Mujer equivocada / Mercedes Rosende. Editorial Alrevés, 2023 Úrsula está insatisfecha. Demasiado fea, demasiado hambrienta, demasiado sola…, su vida no transcurre en absoluto como le gustaría. Su hermana es más guapa, su vecina más feliz, y ¿quién puede mantener eternamente una dieta de sopa de verduras? La misteriosa llamada de chantaje que recibe, informándola de que su marido ha sido…

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#Ambición #Antonio Fontana #Úrsula #chantaje #Democracia #homosexualidad #instituto #la futura directora #machismo #madre #Marie Vingtras #Mercedes Rosende #muerte #niño #nieve #obesidad #Santi Alarcón #Tom Perrotta #Tracy Flick

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Review | Crocodile Tears, Mercedes Rosende | Bitter Lemon Press

Review | Crocodile Tears, Mercedes Rosende | Bitter Lemon Press

Mercedes Rosende is Uruguay’s leading woman crime writer. In 2005 she won the Premio Municipal de Narrativa for Demasiados blues, in 2008 the National Literature Prize for La muerte tendrá tus ojos and in 2019 the LiBeraturpreis in Germany for Crocodile Tears. The only other literature I have had the good fortune to read in translation from the second-smallest nation in South America, includes…

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#bitter lemon press #Book Blasts #book of the week #bookblast recommends #crime fiction in translation #hispanic culture #new fiction in translation #translated fiction #world literature

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The Foreign Girls

By Sergio Olguín

Translated by Miranda France Bitter Lemon Press

Random Things Tours – The Foreign Girls Blog Tour

My exploration of translated fiction has led me to some wonderful discoveries and Bitter Lemon Press’ series of Latin American crime fiction have certainly been a major part of this. I have thoroughly enjoyed publications from Cuba’s Leonardo Padura, Mexico’s Rolo Diez, Patricia Melo from Brazil and more recently Mercedes Rosende from Uruguay. There publications in my opinion are as accessible as Nordic Noir fiction to English language readers. Argentina in particular has some superb translations into English, such as Claudia Pineiro’s novels translated by Miranda France. Likewise Sergio Olguín’s “The Fragility of Bodies” released in 2019, also translated by France is as good a Latin American novel as I have read.

The latter introduced Buenos Aires based investigative journalist Veronica Rosenthal to English language readers with a very compelling and multilayered story focused on child exploitation. Thirty-year-old Rosenthal who is Jewish, proved herself to be feisty and headstrong with a determination to protect the vulnerable. Indeed, towards the novel’s climax she single-handedly saves her informant from four contracted assassins. With the story leaving a possible opening remaining to investigate the criminal connections to Argentine high society – perhaps even links to her father’s legal firm - I suspected this would be a theme of the subsequent novel. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised that Olguín took such a very different approach.

“Foreign Girls” sees a worn out and haunted Rosenthal taking a break from her job, friends and life in Buenos Aires as she flies out to San Miguel de Tucuman. Her destination is the unoccupied home of her cousin on the Cerro San Javier mountain. She relaxes for a week before planning to explore other areas within north west Argentina. For readers this should ordinarily provide us with an unexpected opportunity to get a taste of luxury and tranquility in a picturesque region of the country; had we not already have seen the foreboding prologue of emails between Rosenthal and her best friend back in the city. She encounters two European backpackers Frida from Norway and Petra from Italy. As they get along well together, they agree to spend some further time at her cousin’s cottage. Rosenthal is comfortable with their company but a little perplexed by the relationship between the two girls. Later to her surprise she has a romantic encounter with one of them; and to her further surprise, fully enjoys the experience. Her confused feelings eventually persuade her to take some distance from them.

In a separate parallel story, we also see trouble brewing for the journalist as the surviving hitman from the previous novel is assisted in escaping prison and is determined to extract vengeance upon her. Hearing of the man’s escape Rosenthal’s father dispatches Federico, a trusted junior member of his law firm who also happens to be in love with Rosenthal, to retrieve her in order to enable her personal safety.

In the meanwhile, Rosenthal and the girls travel to the nearby historic town of Yacanto del Valle where they meet up the cousin of her own cousin’s wife. Ramiro invites them to the party of a local landowner. She departs the party with him, leaving the girls there. The following morning, Rosenthal decides to continue her travels on her own. A few days later, the bodies of the two foreign girls are found in undergrowth with sacrificial offerings suggesting a Macumbra rite killing.

The deaths attract nationwide attention with the provincial prosecutor keen to secure a quick arrest. Dissatisfied with the lacklustre investigations of the police, and the competing rivalries between the prosecutor and judiciary; the grieving and guilt ridden Rosenthal vows to secure justice for her friends. Yet while unwittingly already in danger, her actions drive her into further trouble from vested interests within the local region.

Inspired by real events, Olguín explores the tragic theme of femicide in a country where one woman is killed on average every 32 hours. Through Rosenthal’s investigations we hear about other murders of young females, some aged as young as 15, from the Yacanto del Valle area. We meet a local girl from a humble background who lost her own sister in similar circumstances. The authorities lack of prioritisation of the investigation into these crimes is shown while we also learn that many of the victims were in the proximity of men from higher social classes. In the case of Rosenthal’s friends, Federico warns her that it would be much harder for her to get a conviction should wealthier culprits appear responsible of their murder. Therefore, the inequalities of the justice system, as well as corruption and protection of businesses interests and friendships are also displayed in a novel high on pertinent social issues. Femicide aside, these are also themes that are explored in “The Fragility of Bodies”, and this is more than a worth follow up exploring new territory.

“The Foreign Girls” can be read as a standalone novel. The required backstory on Rosenthal and Federico is provided through the prose. There is very little interaction with the other surviving characters of the first novel due to the countryside setting in this sequel. So you should not be deterred from reading this novel first. Despite some of the heavy subject nature, the story is for the most part action packed thriller as the key protagonist delves into her investigations never quite sure of where danger lurks or who shares her same intentions for justice. With great credit to translator Miranda France the words flow just as fluently as Jim Beam does for Veronica Rosenthal. Reading this book felt like being acquainted with an old friend. For myself as a male reader, I feel that Olguín through France’s translation captures the thought processes of his female lead protagonist in what I feel is a very realistic way. I feel it’s a novel that could have been as convincingly written by a female author as a male one.

Perhaps the one aspect lacking from “The Foreign Girls” is that there are less interweaving and concurrent stories in comparison to “The Fragility Of Bodies”. This is understandable for the second novel in a series when the key character has been established and uprouted to a different location. Olguín should be praised for a dramatic change of setting and tackling some social issues that are of prominent importance to his country. Aside from being entertained, a key purpose of international fiction is to learn about life in different cultures and there is much knowledge to be acquired in this series.

Overall “The Foreign Girls” is a very intelligent, compelling and socially conscious thriller set in provincial Argentina which will leave you longing for more stories of Veronica Rosenthal.

As the novel concludes, we leave her on route back to Buenos Aires. With one concluding novel left to be translated “No Hay Amores Felices” I am anticipating one final enthralling quest for justice on her return to the capital.

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Read my review of The Fragility of Bodies by Sergio Olguín here:

#crimeintranslation #crime fiction #latinamericancrimefiction #argentinefiction

[philosophenstreik]

krokodilstränen - ein ungewöhnlicher kriminalroman, dessen bild auf dem einban rätsel aufwirft....

#krokodilstränen #philosophenstreik #tobias bruns #mercedes rosende #unionsverlag #rezension #kriminalroman