by Jean Rhys · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467206210
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«Ancho mar de los Sargazos» is the novel by Jean Rhys, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (198 pages, in Spanish).
In Jamaica after the abolition of slavery, Antoinette Cosway, a young Creole woman, grows up divided between her family's British heritage and the life of the islanders. Antoinette's marriage to an Englishman stirs rumours and confronts her with a world marked by race, class, gender and colonialism.
The translation is by Andrés Bosch, with a prologue by Carmen Posadas; the original title is «Wide Sargasso Sea». The work was originally published in 1966.
For readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century English narrative, interested in stories that explore identity and colonial heritage.
Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her final novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
