A good book to read:"La viuda de los Jueves"

" La viuda de los Jueves" is a great book written by the Argentinian writer Claudia Piñeiro. The novel is written in a very attractive way, it draws a line between past and present and mixes both all the time to make the reader understand better.
The story is about the way in which rich Argentinean society live in a closed,exclusive neighbourhood in the outsides of the city of Buenos Aires, these places are called "countries" in Argentina.
Altos de la Cascada is a "country" where the story takes place. There are many big, beautiful houses not separated from each other with any fences.The place is exclusive and only accessible for the rich.Many families live in the "country"sharing the same standards of living and they want to keep it at any price. The problem is that at the end of the presidency of Antonio DE La Rua the financial decay of the country affected all Argentinean especially the people who lived in Altos de la Cascada who were not able to adjust their lives to the new reality of the country.
"Las viudas de los Jueves"(the widows of Thursdays)is the way women in the country used to call themselves because their husbands meet every Thursday to eat and play cards. That day the wives were free to go to cinemas,theatre or do other things. The nick Widows is like a prediction to what happens at the end of the book.
I will not tell the end but I recommend to read it, it is very interesting to know a reality very different to ours, the middle classes. The book shows how frivolous people can be. They do not have any scruple to do whatever, even kill in order to live in an ostentatious way.
If you have the chance read this book is not only interesting but also entertaining and it keeps the reader expecting what will happen until the last page .