by Josefina Aldecoa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432207945
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«El vergel» is the novel by writer Josefina Aldecoa, published in 1999 by Seix Barral in paperback (141 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a girls' boarding school in postwar Spain, the story follows a young boarder who observes life at the institution. The students move between imposed discipline and a network of friendships and complicities that serves as their refuge. The novel deals with repression, loss of innocence, and the gradual awakening to a freedom that the environment denies.
The 141-page edition was published in Barcelona within the Biblioteca Breve collection of Seix Barral.
Josefina Aldecoa, originally known as Josefa Rodríguez Álvarez, was a Spanish writer and teacher born in León. She was married to the writer Ignacio Aldecoa, whose surname she adopted for her own literary career after his death. Josefina Aldecoa was the founder and Principal of the Colegio Estilo from 1959 until her death in 2011. She died on 16 March 2011 in Cantabria, due to respiratory problems, at the age of 85.
