![]() ![]() All seem to be residents in Altos and all three are almost certainly women – perhaps all are Thursday night widows. ![]() This is revealed to us via three different narrators. In between we get to know the intimate secrets of the various inhabitants of Altos de la Cascada. The novel opens with the mysterious deaths of three of the Thursday night husbands and ends with the frightening and disturbing revelation of what actually happened to the three men. And it is this underworld which the novel explores and dissects. Of course behind the façade of immaculate perfection which Altos de la Cascada presents to the outside world, there lies a world of deceit, corruption, unhappiness and cruelty. The husbands meet every Thursday, which leads the wives to refer to themselves as the Thursday night widows. The novel focuses on the fortunes and misfortunes of a small group of families. Hence the need to live in a gated community. The have a wonderful, luxurious lifestyle, which they want to keep to themselves. ![]() The inhabitants of the apparently idyllic Altos de la Cascada are the very wealthy nouveaux riches of Argentina. Las Viudas de los Jueves is a sharp, witty and at times funny, at times dark and bitter tale of life in one of Argentina’s gated communities in the 1990s and early 2000s. ![]() Las Viudas de los Jueves by Claudia Piñeiro was the third novel I read to complete the Argentinian Reading Challenge. ![]()
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