by Emma Cline · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433960733
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«Las chicas» is the psychological thriller novel by Emma Cline, published by Anagrama in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
California, 1969. Evie, a lonely teenager fascinated by free-spirited girls, enters a commune led by Russell, a manipulative musician. Amid drugs and free love, she loses contact with her family, and the commune drifts toward a violent cult. Inspired by the Manson case, the novel explores adolescent fragility and the guilt of choices.
Part of the Compactos collection, number 748. Original title: The Girls; translation by Inga Pellisa.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the sixties, counterculture, and the drift of communes.
Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist from California. She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her story collection, Daddy, was published in 2020, and her second novel, The Guest, was published in 2023. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2017, Cline was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, and Forbes named her one of their "30 Under 30 in Media". She is a recipient of the Plimpton Prize and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
