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La isla de las mujeres tristes
Leaving the city, taking the train that goes every hour from Concha station and arriving at Puentes Grandes, the Borrero family's big rambling house next to the river Almendares. Meeting, and getting to know the (ingenuous and diabolical) secrets of this extravagant family; in their strange and tragic destiny. Feeling how a young (sick) poète maudit called Julián del Casal enters the house without warning... this is the adventure Elizabeth Mirabal offers us in this novel which delighted the jury of Premio Iberoamericano Verbum de Novela 2014. And she does so with balance, with as much demonism as her characters, with incredibly mature language. This is the surprising, subtle investigation into a family's inner life, various poets and an era.