by Marcela Serrano · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420483733
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«El albergue de las mujeres tristes» is the contemporary fiction novel by Marcela Serrano, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (392 pages, in Spanish).
Floreana Fabrés, a historian, travels to a women's hostel in Chiloé to recover from a crisis following the failure of her marriage and a romantic relationship. There she lives among women seeking to heal from heartbreak, in a story about female dissatisfaction and male fear of women's autonomy.
Written by Chilean author Marcela Serrano (Santiago, Chile, 1951), the novel was published in 1998 in Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
A novel aimed at contemporary fiction readers interested in emotional relationships and the female experience.
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."
