Las muertas
Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Jorge Ibargüengoitia |
|---|---|
| Original title | Las muertas |
| Translator | Asa Zatz |
| Cover artist | Joy Laville (1st Spanish ed.) |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre | Novel |
| Set in | Central Mexico, 1950s/1960s |
| Publisher | Joaquín Mortiz (orig.), Chatto & Windus/Avon Books (transl.) |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Publication place | Mexico City |
Published in English | 1982 |
| Pages | 156 |
| ISBN | 968-27-0291-7 (Mortiz) |
| Preceded by | Estas ruinas que ves |
| Followed by | Dos crímenes |
Las muertas is a 1977 novel by Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia, originally published in Spanish by Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico City. Asa Zatz's English translation The Dead Girls was first published in 1982 by Chatto & Windus in the United Kingdom and by Avon Books in the United States and was reprinted by Picador Classics in 2018.
Published between Estas ruinas que ves (1975) and Dos crímenes (1979), it is considered a part of Ibargüengoitia's Plan de Abajo trilogy: three novels set in the fictional state of the same name, which resembles the author's home state of Guanajuato.
Cover art for the first edition was taken from a painting by Joy Laville, Ibargüengoitia's wife.