by Josefina Aldecoa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420474243
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«Hermanas» is the contemporary fiction novel by Josefina Aldecoa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
Isabel and Ana grow up with a contradictory and very present mother. Each chooses an opposite path: one seeks family, the other independence. When the same man appears in their lives, the rivalry between them threatens their relationship. The novel portrays two ways of being a woman and the bonds of complicity and distance that sustain these sisters.
Novel published in 2008 within Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
For adult readers of contemporary fiction interested in family relationships and female characters.
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.
