A Little Luck

From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize

20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. She is not the same―not her name or voice, not even the color of her eyes. The neighborhood looks different too, but she’s still the same woman and it’s still the same place, and as the past erupts into view, they slowly collide. 

A Little Luck is the story about the debilitating weight of lies, the messy line between bravery and cowardice, and the tragedies, big and small, that can ripple out from a single decisive event. In a place she had determined to forget forever, both anticipated encounters and unanticipated revelations show her, and us, that sometimes life is neither fate nor chance: perhaps it’s nothing more than a little luck.

Claudia Piñeiro is the author of Elena Knows , shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. A best-selling Argentinian writer born in Buenos Aires in 1960, she is one of the most widely translated contemporary authors working in Spanish.

Frances Riddle has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Claudia Piñeiro, and Leila Guerriero. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Originally from Houston, Texas, she lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.