Libros de Cristina Sánchez-andrade (2 libros)

Cuentos que se mueven entre lo macabro y lo irónico, entre la fábula y el esperpento, el crudo realismo y la fantasía más desaforada. Un niño traumatizado por la desaparición de su cordero empieza a comer lana, que vomita en forma de bolas; un ama de cría sueña con emigrar a América mientras mantiene la leche utilizando a un perrito; a un marqués le proporcionan dentaduras postizas de dudosa procedencia; a un niño le extirpan las amígdalas, que acaban convertidas en trofeo; un náufrago logra sobrevivir gracias a un secreto inconfesable; una anciana toma una decisión inaudita...

The old woman Lucha is about to be killed by her husband before the astonished gaze of her granddaughter. The origin of the rancor accumulated for decades dates back to the early morning of January 2, 1921. The young Lucha experienced the shipwreck of the steamship Santa Isabel at the mouth of the Arousa estuary, off the island of Sálvora. While the men celebrated the arrival of the new year, the women faced alone the rescue of the castaways by throwing themselves into the sea with their dornas. They were considered heroines, but there were also rumors about not-so-epic behaviors, in which...