Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
  • Published: 3 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409041702
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Seven Ways to Kill a Cat

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A brilliant first novel from Argentina taking you right into the streets and slums of Buenos Aires as one young man fights for his life.

'There's seven ways to kill a cat. But when it comes down to it, there's only two ways. In a civilised fashion or like a fucking savage'.

In Buenos Aires, the economy has collapsed and people are protesting on the streets. But in the barrio, life goes on - the slums of the city are ruled by gangs, drugs and guns.

Gringo and Chueco are almost adults, and joining the gang warfare that governs their community seems inevitable. Chueco thinks he can join El Jetita's gang but remain his own man, Gringo knows this can't happen - you obey the leader or else. As the two get drawn ever deeper into the turf war between El Jetita and his rival Charly, Gringo sees an alternative way of life, and love, pass before his eyes. A few days ago he and Chueco were joking about killing cats; now he's fighting to save his skin.
  • Published: 3 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409041702
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Matias Nespolo

Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Matías Néspolo studied literature, going on to write poems, short stories, journalism and then Seven Ways to Kill a Cat, his acclaimed first novel. He has been living in Barcelona since 2001 and, in 2010, was selected by Granta as one of their best young contemporary Spanish-language novelists.

Praise for Seven Ways to Kill a Cat

A brilliant debut

Javier Cercas

A story as forceful as a bullet. It leaves you breathless. High voltage literature.

El Mundo

a startlingly strong debut... Tarantino-style fast editing, black humour and sicko-hilarious gun-toting slapstick... A brilliant debut

Chris Moss, Time Out

First-rate

Guardian

First-rate...7 Ways to Kill a Cat is a debut pervaded by a grim rather than magic realism, and the better for it

Andrew Rosenheim, Times Literary Supplement

Néspolo's novel bears comparison with such masters of description of life in the slums as Alexander Baron and Nelson Algren...an excellent adventure story that also documents urban poverty and violence, with faultless dialogue and at breathtaking pace

Michael Euade, Independent
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