by Marcela Serrano · SANTILLANA PUBLISHING^CO INC. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789562390347
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«El albergue de las mujeres tristes» is the novel by Marcela Serrano, published by Santillana in paperback (393 pages, in Spanish).
Floreana, a young historian, arrives at a singular hostel on the island of Chiloé where women from different backgrounds seek to heal the wounds of heartbreak. The novel examines female dissatisfaction, male fear of women's autonomy, and the search for genuine loving relationships in contemporary society.
First edition, with ISBN 9562390349. Published in 1997. Part of the Alfaguara Hispanic Narrative collection.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories about couple relationships and reflections on the role of women.
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."
