About the Book
Expelled from her demure convent school for swimming nude, led kicking and screaming to the alter, Ana Magdalena Figueroa is kidnapped on her wedding night only to escape and find refuge in the arms of the man of her savagely hot adolescent fantasies. Her marriage to the patrician but penniless writer, Federico Orgaz y Orgaz leads her to even more colorful adventures, from her blissful initiation into the flourishing bordello of her Aunt Ofelia to her apotheosis as the Madam extraordinaire of the legendary Confiteria. Meanwhile, Federico takes his cue from the subversively wicked stories his wife tells him to find his writing suddenly taking off at a new and flourishing pace. Exploring the nature of romance, deceit, and female desire, Cecile Pineda blends social and political satire with magic realism in a tour-de-force of stunning originality.