Heir to the best feminist tradition, the Cuban author Aida Bahr reveals in this book eight stories in which pain and fear are involved. A woman raped and abused by her husband, a married mother who discovers love with another woman, a waif kid... are some of the characters in difficult situations, sometimes limit, which are narrated in this work. Eight women, who could be just one. People who at some point in their lives feel that being a woman is a harsh work in a world organized by others. They are very elaborated and bitter stories of high drama, in which the author shows signs of extreme sensitivity and discovers the many realities that women face in any society. No sweeteners or concessions. This book won the Alejo Carpentier in 2007, the most important literary prize awarded by the Cuban Book Institute of the Ministry of Culture of Cuba.
