by Marcela Serrano · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420414461
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El albergue de las mujeres tristes is a novel by Chilean writer Marcela Serrano, published in 1997. The story centers on a hostel on the island of Chiloé, where heartbroken women gather to heal their emotional wounds. Through their experiences, the novel explores themes of love, heartbreak, feminism, and the search for more genuine and happy relationships. The author also gives voice to a male point of view, that of the town doctor, who carries his own wounds.
Marcela Serrano is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, Para que no me olvides, won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, Nosotras que nos queremos tanto, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish. She received the runner-up award in the renowned Premio Planeta competition in 2001 for her novel Lo que está en mi corazón. Carlos Fuentes has quoted her description of the modern woman as "having the capacity to change skin like a snake, freeing herself from the inevitability and servitude of more obsolete times."
