by Diane Setterfield · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499081069
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«El cuento número trece» is the gothic mystery novel by Diane Setterfield, published by Debolsillo in hardback (480 pages, in Spanish).
Vida Winter, a celebrated novelist who has always lied about her past, commissions Margaret Lea, a young bookseller, to write her biography. Amid secrets and memories, Margaret uncovers a family marked by excess, a fire, and an enigmatic figure in a mansion, on the way to the thirteenth tale no one dared to write.
Translation by Matilde Fernández de Villavicencio. Originally published in 2006 as «The Thirteenth Tale»; it won the ALA Alex Award and the Quill Award in 2007.
For readers of gothic and mystery novels with a literary atmosphere, lovers of stories about books and family secrets.
Diane Setterfield is an English author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. Setterfield won the 2007 Quill Award, debut author of the year, for the novel. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of Brontë sisters' Jane Eyre (1847) and Wuthering Heights (1847).
