La reina de oros

Synopsis of La reina de oros

«La reina de oros» is the novel by Horacio Vázquez Rial, published by Ediciones B in paperback (281 pages, in Spanish).

Mila Sole is abandoned by her mother, a prostitute from the Barrio Chino who leaves for the front with the militiamen, and sold for forty duros at the age of fourteen. Her beauty helps her overcome the hardships and rationing of the 1950s and makes her a woman desired by men and women alike, but the cards foretell a fate of pain with only one day of happiness.

This edition, the first of February 1998, corresponds to number 257/1 of the Istorio Barregarriak collection and bears the subtitle «soap-opera».

For readers of romantic fiction and contemporary fiction, especially those seeking a female protagonist who faces an adverse environment.