_"Piñeiro is delightfully successful at marrying the joy of a crime novel with the intelligence, and deep characterization, of literary fiction." ~_ _Words Without Borders_
LIFE AFTER CRIME FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF _ELENA KNOWS..._
Born in Buenos Aires in 1960, Claudia Piñeiro has won numerous national and international prizes, including the Pepe Carvalho Prize, the LiBeraturpreis for _Elena Knows_ and the prestigious Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize for _Las grietas de Jara_ (A Crack in the Wall).
Many of her novels have been adapted for the big screen, including _Elena Knows_ for Netflix. Piñeiro is the third most translated Argentinean author after Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar. She's also a playwright and scriptwriter (including popular Netflix series _The Kingdom_). Her novel _Elena Knows_ was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
_Fifteen years after killing her husband's lover, Ines is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they've started a business - FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies - dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women._
_But Senora Bonar, one of their clients, wants Ines to do more than kill bugs - she wants her expertise, and her criminal past, to help her kill her husband's lover, too._
Crimes against women versus crimes by women; culpability, fallibility, and our responsibilities to each other - this is Piñeiro at her wry, earthy best, alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable, to be understood, by family and love and other hostile forces.
_"Time of the Flies is orchestral: a page turner that is also a crime novel, a thriller, a meditation on feminism, our choices, our lack of choices. As Piñeiro unpacks her Pandora box of stories, voices, preoccupations, characters, you wonder, how on earth will she weave them together?" ~ Julia Alvarez_