Las muertas

by Jorge Ibargüengoitia · first published 1977

Las muertas is a 1977 novel by Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia, originally published in Spanish by Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico City. Asa Zatz's English translation The Dead Girls was first published in 1982 by Chatto & Windus in the United Kingdom and by Avon Books in the United States and was reprinted by Picador Classics in 2018. Published between Estas ruinas que ves (1975) and Dos crímenes (1979), it is considered a part of Ibargüengoitia's Plan de Abajo trilogy: three novels set in the fictional state of the same name, which resembles the author's home state of Guanajuato. Cover art for the first edition was taken from a painting by Joy Laville, Ibargüengoitia's wife.

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Original language:

Spanish

Year page:

1977