by Renate Dorrestein · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433969903
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«Álbum de familia» is the suspense novel by Renate Dorrestein, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Ellen, a thirty-seven-year-old doctor, pregnant and recently separated, returns to her childhood home to unravel the past. Through the photographs of a family album she tries to reconstruct what happened in 1972, when she was twelve and was sent to an institution for orphaned children. An atmosphere of suspense accompanies the exploration of the secrets that marked her family.
Dorrestein's first novel published in Spain, in the Panorama de narrativas collection, number 530. Originally published in Dutch as «Een hart van steen».
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and psychological suspense stories with a family background.
Renate Maria Dorrestein was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Dorrestein published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books. Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries.
