The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...

Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up--a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married,...

When Leda's daughters leave home to be with their father, she decides to take a trip to a small coastal town in Italy, but soon after she arrives memories from her unsettled past come back to haunt her.

Las tres piezas tienen como protagonista a una mujer, y las tres indagan en el dolor femenino con mano firme, sin concesiones al sentimentalismo, poniendo al descubierto con frialdad eso que a menudo las mujeres sienten y piensan, sin atreverse a contarlo. El amor molesto narra la relación de Delia con su madre Amelia. Los días del abandono es la más conocida por el público internacional. Cuenta la historia de una mujer joven, madre de dos hijos,...