Las muertas

Las muertas / The Dead Girls

Novel , 1977

Antonio Machado

Pages: 150

In 1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as ‘Las Poquianchis’, run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape.

The Dead Girls is the discovery of these young women, buried in the back yard. In the laconic tones of a police report, Jorge Ibargüengoitia investigates these horrific murders and their motives.

A black comedy, both moving and cruelly funny, Ibargüengoitia’s work is a potent and entertaining blend of sex and mayhem.

"Cynical madams, corrupt soldiers, cheapjack politicians, violent crimes, bodies in the back yard... The Dead Girls is a startlingly good book by an author of genuine, exciting originality"–Shalman Rushdie