El corsario del Plata

Lucía Garrido is a successful surgeon with a tragic past and a suffocating present she can barely sustain. She is trapped in a loveless marriage, a dead-end job, and the demands of parenthood which--by a seemingly-unquestionable social division of labor--seem to have befallen only her. But the sudden death of her absent father shakes her out of her inertia. She decides to show up at the funeral under the pretext of accompanying her uncle, the man who raised her after her mother's suicide and her twin sister's estrangement. Little does she know that returning to her hometown will provide a...

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La lectura de este libro, Desencuentros, es un auténtico tesoro –tanto para los que conocen la obra de Edmundo Paz Soldán, como para aquellos que lleguen de nuevas– porque reúne sus dos primeros libros, Las máscaras de la nada (1990) y Desapariciones(1994), que supusieron la presentación formal e impresionante de quien con el tiempo se convertirá en uno de los grandes narradores en español. Sus cuentos breves y llenos de sorpresas son protagonizados por personajes extraños de sí mismos, atormentados y solitarios; seres diseminados por la geografía de Bolivia y América, y de...

The story revolves around Fortunata and Jacinta, two women of different classes who claim Juanito Santa Cruz as their husband. Juanito, the scion of a wealthy family, goes around carousing and womanizing with his friends. In one of these episodes, he is taken with Fortunata, a young woman of the lower class. This encounter ends when Juanito grows bored of Fortunata and disappears from her life leaving her pregnant. Worried about Juanito's lifestyle, his mother decides to marry him to his cousin Jacinta and arranges a series of meetings between them that end in marriage. During their...