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 continues after her friend's boyfriend, thinking that she only needs a "chance" so that he can be hers. Laura does not see this favorably so she tells her sister a story where we can see that jealousy has different forms: "Othello."

Diana kissed her friend's ex and now she doesn't know what to do, Laura tries to help her sister understand her feelings and make a decision by reciting some poems from Giovanna Pollarolo's collection of poems “Entre mujeres solas”

School dramas come for Laura when her best friend, Martina, confesses that she is homosexual and that she is afraid to tell her parents. Laura doesn't know how to react, but talking with Diana she remembers a story that could help her resolve her fears: “Carmilla” by Sheridan Le Fanu.

Sara loses the book of Greek myths that her father used to read to her and her sister when they were little, and while an angry Chío helps her look for it, Sara remembers a story by Virginia Woolf: “The Haunted House.”

It's Sara's birthday and, apart from giving her some terrifying ceramic eyes, Chío has prepared a story that will make her sister's hair stand on end: “Lina's Eyes” by Clemente Palma.

The news of a new quarantine has Chío denying once again, so to calm her down Sara decides to recite some poems from the collection of poems “The Song of Figures” by José María Eguren.