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Obra constituida por un epistolario y un conjunto de diálogos, obras destinadas a la publicación que se han conservado en su totalidad y que son el legado literario y filosófico de su autor

Zeynep es una joven de veintitrés años, criada en un humilde barrio de las afueras de Ankara en el seno de una modesta familia turca tradicional que ve cómo su vida se va adentrando en un lúgubre túnel al que la empujan una serie de acaecimientos infaustos que se van precipitando uno tras otro durante varios meses, siendo el asesinato de su padre, junto a la corrosiva duda tras la inevitable pregunta ¿Quién lo ha hecho?, en la que las flechas de la culpa apuntan a todas partes, el que le produce mayor aflicción. Es, sin darse cuenta, una marioneta enredada en el designio de las...

Lila is a simply unforgettable adventure. The past is evoked with affection and authentic compassion, at times infused with a little bit of humor […] It is not easy, and much less common, to find a text that is so balanced yet moving at the same time. The story has a profound impact without indulging in melodrama. In her letters, the main character holds on to her memories like a shipwreck survivor clings to hope. Prats Sariol has given us an epistolary novel and a crime novel all in one. The murder mystery is not solved until the very end; it is only in the last line that we find out how...

Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) is the most prolific and important woman writer of the 19th century in Colombia. She is an exceptional representative of Colombian intellectual life of that century, not only for the caliber of her writing, the divergent disciplines that she researched and wrote about, and the intense cultural work that she undertook. An avid reader, in her travels to England and France, she personally lived the debates regarding the public presence of the woman writer, as well as the influence that women should or could exercise in society, especially in the lives of...