![]() ![]() The four homicidas she reanimates are Corina Rojas, who hired a man to kill her husband in 1916 Rosa Faúndez Cavieres, who killed and dismembered her husband in 1923 María Carolina Geel, who in 1955 shot and killed her boyfriend and María Teresa Alfaro, who killed three baby girls she nannied along with their grandmother, her boss’s mother, in 1963. More precisely, her book is about four women convicted of murder in the 20th century in Chile. “‘Women who kill,’ I reply, time and again, when people ask me what my book is about.” But then her interlocutors, she explains, “furrow their brows, wince, and then nod their heads in approval of my decision to tackle such a pressing, awful, and all-too-common problem in Latin America.” As her women murderer subjects repeatedly transformed into murdered women in other people’s imaginations, Trabucco Zerán’s surprise yielded to a realization: that “it’s easier for people to imagine a dead woman than a woman prepared to kill.” In the excellent English translation by Sophie Hughes, Alia Trabucco Zerán recounts talking about her book, originally published as Las homicidas. ![]()
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