Vestigios de Dicha

First published in 1927, this legendary French novel intensely recounts a story of both love and heartbreak between the heroine and her beloved. A famous poet whose presence in her life she had intuited since childhood, and with God, who had long seemed to her the substitute--or the antecedent--for this future romantic love.

(Françoise Sagan - Bertolt Brecht - Saint-Exupéry - Simone de Beauvoir - Paul Valéry - Saint-John Perse). Trad. esp. de V. GARCÍA YEBRA.

In this groundbreaking novel from Luc�a Guerra, perceived roles and expectations of women are called into question. Cristina narrates her life, providing readers with a true female perspective rather than showing events through a phallocentric lens. The protagonist discusses taboo topics—including sensuality, menstruation, pregnancy, and abortion—with stark realism, anger, and rebellion, which is in direct contrast to the poetic euphemisms and illusions used in the masculine world that dominated literature at the time. En esta novela revolucionaria de Luc�a Guerra, se ponen en duda...

Una intriga romántica de la maestra del género, que describe con singular habilidad los personajes y sus sentimientos. Jo Ellen, una fotógrafa de éxito, se ve acosada por un desconocido que le envía fotos perturbadoras, entre las cuales hay una de su madre, desaparecida misteriosamente veinte años atrás. Es una foto terrible: en ella, su madre aparece desnuda, joven... y muerta. Desesperada, Jo Ellen abandona Nueva York y regresa a su casa en la costa de Georgia. Su familia aún sigue marcada por lo que considera un abandono inmotivado por parte de la madre. La presencia de Jo Ellen...