El extraordinario viaje de Prudence

Seven middle-aged women, who have not seen each other for more than 30 years, are called to a class reunion at which they are forced to confront a terrible secret from their childhood.

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A classical one indespensable of the feminism postcolonial. It translated for the first time al Spanish, Siniti Namjoshi offers an ingenious one reelaboración of fairytales, of Greek myths and sancritos. Through its histories, shows like the alegoria can constitute a takes deconciencia criticizes always open al questioning of the oficialidad. A gift to reflect on the power and the abuses, extremely necessary in the present times