by Marcela Serrano · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420413686
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«Dulce enemiga mía» is the short story collection by Marcela Serrano, published by Alfaguara in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
Twenty stories explore the female inner world and its contradictions, with settings ranging from the Balkans to Santiago de Chile via La Mancha. Housewives, intellectuals, young and mature women engage with friendship, desire, fear of abandonment, solitude, or hypocrisy.
Marcela Serrano was born in Santiago de Chile. «Dulce enemiga mía» was published in 2013 in Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
It is suitable for readers of short fiction interested in contemporary writing that portrays female experiences and characters.
Marcela Serrano is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the runner-up award in the renowned Premio Planeta competition in 2001 for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón. Carlos Fuentes has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times."
