Money to Burn

Ricardo Piglia · 1941–2017 · Argentina

Originally Plata quemada (Spanish) · translated by Amanda Hopkinson

Why it matters

Small-time Argentine thieves hole up in a Montevideo apartment with a bank haul, burning the cash rather than surrender it to police. Piglia's true-crime novel of doomed loyalty pushed to its last, incendiary stand.

At a glance

A tense, fast-moving heist standoff narrated with journalistic, docudrama clarity.