Papeles de Pandora: cuentos

By Rosario Ferre

Foreign Language Study : Spanish

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: August 2011

ISBN: 9780307558916

Digital Book format: ePub (Adobe DRM)

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Available in Spanish for the first time in the United States.

From Rosario Ferréeacute; (nominated for the National Book Award for The House on the Lagoon), her first work of fiction, long out of print in any edition, in the original Spanish and including a previously unpublished story and two poems.

Papeles de Pandora contains the stories that first brought Rosario Ferréeacute; to the attention of Spanish-language readers throughout the world. In this collection, Ferré introduces her major theme: the position of women in a fast-changing but still patriarchal culture. In "La muñntilde;eca menor" ("The Youngest Doll"), a maiden aunt uses her skill at making honey-filled dolls to get revenge. "La bella durmiente" ("The Sleeping Beauty"), recounts the brief life of a young dancer through letters and newspaper clippings that reveal much more than they say. And in "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" ("When Women Love Men"), a society lady and a prostitute form a startling alliance after the death of the man they both loved. Richly imagined, elegantly written, Ferréeacute;'s stories are early proof of her stature among contemporary Latin American writers.

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