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Mercedes Rosende was born in 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a lawyer and a journalist when not writing fiction. She has won many prizes for her novels and short stories. In 2005 she won the Premio Municipal de Narrativa fur 'Demasiados Blues', in 2008 the National Literature Prize for 'La Muerte Tendra tus Ojos' and in 2019 the LiBeraturpreis in Germany for 'Crocodile Tears'. She lives in Montevideo.
Fast, slick and acerbically funny: buckle up and enjoy the ride. -Guardian It reads like a marvellous mash-up of Anita Brookner and Quentin Tarantino. The Times STARRED REVIEW Rosende smoothly combines dark humor and farce with moving depictions of the grimmer aspects of life. Elmore Leonard fans will look forward to the sequel. Publishers Weekly Two genres merged seamlessly: the gangster saga and the psycho thriller, all spiced with black humour. -- Sueddeutsche Zeitung. A new genre has emerged: the 'never underestimate the women' novel. - Kaliber 38 Nothing is as it seems in the novel, the good are not so good, and the bad are not so bad; the guilty and innocent do not coincide with the true ones, and in the meantime, the Vivaldi Miserere plays on to atone for all the faults, ours and those of others. --Granizo Barrio by barrio, street by street, in the Ciudad Vieja, the port, the Rambla, in the rich and less salubrious areas, a vision of Uruguay less idyllic than what we are usually sold. -- Trappiche
