The Girl with the Jade Green Eyes

Miguel Navarro, who has his differences with the Spanish Civil Guard, flees the village of Lekeitio and ends up in Guernica, where he meets a beautiful dancer named Miren and falls in love as the horrific bombing of the city by the German Luftwaffe approaches.

Una humilde familia de campo es tentada por la ambición económica y el dinero fácil sujeto a una leyenda urbana, sin imaginar lo terrorífico que podría resultar su final.

Ojalá hubiera caído en mis manos, siendo chavala, un libro como este, en el que se invita a los hijos a rebelarse contra sus padres, y no en un sentido metafórico (...) En 'La tiranía de las moscas' ni la mamá mima ni el papá posa con los hermanitos y un solecito en lo alto. En 'La tiranía de las moscas' la hermana mayor es una shakesperiana heroína llamada Casandra cuya epopeya consiste en la autodeterminación de su sexualidad contra el reaccionarismo tiránico por parte de su padre y patologizante por parte de su madre. (...) el tirano padre de Casandra, Calia y Caleb, tartamudo...

Herencia (1895) set in the city of Lima during the last decades of the XIX Century, is the third deliberately controversial novel written by Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852-1909), well known by then for her novels, Aves sin nido (1889) and Indole (1891), which take place in rural Andean Peru. An experienced writer of essays, historical fiction and biographies, Clorinda Matto had a sociologist's sharply observant eye, but by 1895, when she published Herencia, Clorinda Matto's days as an aggressive journalist in Lima were numbered. Only a few months later, she fled into exile in Argentina...