by Victoria Mas · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418107641
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«El baile de las locas» is the historical novel by Victoria Mas, published by Salamandra in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Paris, 1885. At the Salpêtrière hospital, Professor Charcot organises each year the popular Mid-Lent ball, where high society dances with the disguised inmates. Among them, Louise, a young epileptic, and Eugénie, locked away by her family, fight for their dreams and to escape a system that decides for them.
El baile de las locas, Victoria Mas's first novel, won the Prix Renaudot des Lycéens. This Spanish edition belongs to the Salamandra Narrativa collection and comes from the French.
Recommended for those seeking historical fiction with female protagonists and a vindication of women's freedom in the nineteenth century.
