La insumisa

"The first time I proposed to my mother, I was three years old ... I had serious purposes: I wanted to marry her... to establish a marriage full of love, tenderness, understanding and shared tastes..." This is how this novel begins autobiographical by Cristina Peri Rossi who goes through her childhood and youth years with perplexity and surprise at a world that she has had to live and does not understand. Through these pages, a life in permanent conflict between desire and reality is perceived, seeking to fulfill its deepest desires despite the prohibitions and social customs that being a woman entails. And as in her best books, the reader will find love, lyricism, content drama and humor, that humor that characterizes her, not mocking, but full of mercy and tenderness.