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Both a literal and a metaphorical crack in the wall of a house and the facade of someone's life. A midlife crisis and a dubious death makes for a very noirish, yet wistful novel, with a flawed yet oddly lovable main character who describes himself as 'vermin'.
I read Betty Boo last year and loved this Argentinian authors creation of a Buenos Aries where anything could happen and a great twist on the crime genre and my second outing into her imagination did not disappoint. Here we quickly know that the main character, Pablo, an architect, is hiding a secret shared with his boss and a female colleague about events 3 years before when the firm appears to be presented with a complaint about the crack in the wall of a flat in proximity to one of their buil...
I read this book because I liked 1) the title, 2) the cover, and 3) the jacket blurb.When I started reading it, it was okay at best. I skimmed a lot, but kept reading.Half way through I uncovered a revelation, and 2/3 of the way through a significant turn. And when it ended, I pondered.If you rate a book by how much you think about it when you've finished it... well, I'll think about this one for a while.
Pablo Simo has a job that offers little professional fulfillment, a wife and teen-aged daughter whose constant bickering leaves him emotionally drained and a disquieting guilt from an affair involving his business associates. This guilt erupts into a profound sense of angst when an attractive young woman makes inquiries at his office involving Nelson Jara, a client who disappeared three years ago.As his grasp of reality suffers the effect of these worries, Pablo fantasizes forming a relationship...
An entertaining, suspenseful thriller about an architect in Buenos Aires and his connection to a murder from three years ago. The murder is revealed at the beginning of the novel, although the details unravel throughout the story of the architect’s dissolving marriage, rebellious teenage daughter, disappointment with his job, and affair with a young woman who comes looking for the murder victim. The characters are skillfully sketched, and the ending has a hint of Patricia Highsmith.
A Crack in the Wall was first published as Las grietas de Jara in 2009 and I read the Miranda France translation first published in 2013. Argentinian writer Claudia Piñeiro set this novel in Buenos Aires and this is very much a novel about this city and its people.At first glance this would seem like a crime novel, and there was a crime committed and there is something of a mystery surrounding the perpetrators of the crime and whether they will be found out. But in more significant ways, this is...
This was not what I was expecting when I started this crime novel as it differed from other crime novels I've read. I can't pinpoint exactly why I couldn't get into this novel, but I suspect the main character's depressing nature played a part.
