Los sueños de Anna

Puro Cuento is a publication of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College and it contains original works by our students. It is published yearly, during the summer.

All Callie wanted was a quiet weekend with her best friend. She promised she could handle running her family's escape room business while her mom is out of town. Instead a Satanic cult shows up, claiming that the prop spell book in one of the rooms is the real deal, and they need it to summon the right hand of the devil. Naturally they take Callie and her friend, Mag, along with them. But when the summoning reveals a handsome demon in a leather jacket named Luke who offers to help Callie stop the cult from destroying the world, her night goes from weird to completely strange. As the group...

«Cada cuento de La Antártica empieza aquí propone numerosas conexiones entre acontecimientos y personajes pero, al dejarlas siempre parcialmente en la sombra, logra que den una idea de enormidad, de gran resonancia y muchas implicaciones, aun para los sucesos más banales.» Jurado Premio Caza de Letras

A brilliant commentary on societal expectations, this novel about of the fortunes and misfortunes of sisters Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret Dashwood after the death of their beloved father offers a compelling picture of life in the English countryside and of women's role in society at the beginning of the 19th century.