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“... to Chilean women is a consistent theme in Zerán’s work. In Las Homicidas (2019, translated by Sophie Hughes as When Women Kill in 2022), she excavated the lives of four 20th-century Chilean women convicted of murder, interrogating the way gender and class bias may have provoked their crimes and later shaped their public images. Her first novel, La ...”

“... He claimed a much greater distance from his material, though he based his book on real murders.Sophie Hughes’s translation alternates between British and American idioms and sometimes consciously rubs these up against each other, with ‘bint’ followed by ‘smart-ass’, ‘pisshead’ cheek by jowl with ‘missus’. The bottommost linguistic ...”

“... and take my revenge, as at the end of Le Rouge et le noir Julien Sorel comes back and murders Sophie de Rênal. So did I give my love to a man who had no uncalculated thought, no unplanned affections, no unblazoned brand-name from the Burlington Arcade to the Rue de Rivoli? A man who expected English hostesses to know who and what he meant by Henry ...”

“... I got stuck or didn’t know what to do, I would make a print,’ she told the curator Sophie Lindo. ‘The process would free up my mind and let me just work without making art. Often that’s when you do your best things.’ The prints are not only a major component of her output as a whole – T.G. Rosenthal’s catalogue raisonné of her ...”