Trece cuentos (1931-1963)

A nun flushed with the affections of a young couple; a gang of day laborers standing before the master; a group of republican prisoners in post-war prisons or an interracial marriage in the segregated United States, are some of the plots developed by Luisa Carnés, the great forgotten narrator of 1927, in this first anthology of her stories. After her acclaimed Tea Rooms, we now discover the stories of this invisible author, perhaps the best storyteller of her generation, in the words of many. Hard and exciting stories, such as Luisa's life, in which women always occupy a central role: strong and determined women, submissive and timid, courageous mothers capable of taking someone else's child as their own, silent or dignified and irreducible victims. Divided into four thematic blocks - the stories of the Republic, those of the civil war and the postwar period, those with a Mexican theme and those of the international current affairs of the time - this volume records an author who cries out for a place in the history of Spanish literature.