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Sergio Olguin was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and was a journalist before turning to fiction. Olguin has won a number of awards, among others the Premio Tusquets 2009 for his novel Oscura monotona sangre ( Dark Monotonous Blood ) His books have been translated into German, French and Italian. The Fragility of Bodies is his first novel to be translated into English.
KIRKUS: The story is so gripping and Veronica is such a fascinating departure from crime fiction convention--she's 30, Jewish, brazen, and openly flawed--that the book becomes difficult to put down. Also a very good novel about journalism, it's the first installment of a trilogy.An unusual, intoxicating thriller from Argentina that casts deeper and deeper shadows. SHOTS: This is how I like my noir fiction: no cops with unlikely hang-ups, no copycat serial killers, no 'here-we-go-again' plots. Olguin concentrates instead on villains and victims and several dollops of savage sex. PW: Olguin makes his English-language debut with a scalding crime novel set in Buenos Aires, first in a series featuring ambitious journalist Veronica Rosenthal. Olguin memorably explores the gulf between the haves and have-nots of Buenos Aires. Readers will hope to see more of the complex Veronica.
