My Sister And Her Books

A Diana la invade la nostalgia por las playas de Huanchaco y esto le recuerda a Laura un cuento del gran Abraham Valdelomar: “Los Ojos de judas”, la trágica historia de Luisa y de un niño con el que entabla una conexión en las playas de Pisco.

A lost scholarship, a half-finished first university cycle... all of Diana's plans were frustrated by the pandemic, so Laura tries to get her out of her dramas by reciting some poems from the collection of poems “5 Meters of Poems” by the Peruvian avant-garde Carlos Oquendo de Amat. .

After a fight between Diana and her father, Laura decides to tell him a story about another father and son in conflict: “Frankenstein,” a novel by Mary Shelley that gives a twist to this type of story with a creature looking for a place in the world and only finding rejection.

Diana has fallen in love with Giacomo Razzolini, a boy she met on Instagram, but this displeases Laura who believes that her sister only likes him because he is “handsome”, this makes them talk about how sometimes appearances can be deceptive. and to review the story of “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

The dilemma about what to do with Diana's old dress leads the sisters to ask a very interesting question: Do we wear what we wear conditioned by others or because we really like it? Seeking to find an answer, Laura remembers a story by Clorinda Matto de Turner on a very popular feminine garment of her time: “The corset”.

“I hate 2020!” Diana believes that this year ir responsible for all of her misfortunes. Could it be true? Laura remembers a story that has to do with that and leads them to question whether the years are really the culprits for what happens in them: “El engendro” by Emilia Pardo Bazán.