by Vicki Baum · PLANETA: BESTSELLERS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432082511
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«El lago de las damas» is the novel by Vicki Baum published by Planeta in 1985 in paperback (219 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in an elegant Austrian spa town and portrays a wealthy clientele living among appearances, leisure, and social conventions. Beneath the lake's calm surface, secrets, jealousies, romances, and intrigues emerge, disrupting the vacationers' routine and revealing the more decadent side of that high society.
It is part of the Bestsellers Planeta collection (no. 48). Its original title is Hell in Frauensee, and the translation is by Eduardo Warschaver.
For readers of classic fiction who enjoy stories with a European setting, social portraiture, and sentimental intrigues.
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel Menschen im Hotel, one of her first international successes. It was made into a 1932 film and a 1989 Broadway musical.
