ABOUT ME
Born in Barcelona, Lydia Masanet is a professor of Languages and Literatures at Mercer University in the U.S. Her speciality is women's autobiography in contemporary Spanish literature, about which she has extensively written and lectured . Noted for her literary criticism, La autobiografía femenina española contemporànea (1998), Masanet is well referenced by writers around the world. In 2008, she was asked to write an honorarium for the famed Catalan writer Mercedes Salisachs for her publication Espéculo. Her first novel, Hacia dentro en femenino, a collection of short stories, was published in 2012 by Editorial Círculo Rojo. Most recently, she has published her second novel, Enhebradas, a kaleidoscope of interwoven stories revealed through the voices of multi-generational women, has received high acclaim for its innovative style and complexity at capturing the feminine context.
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According to Editorial Adarve, Masanet's novel, Enhebradas, is a polyphonic structure of sixteen femenine voices of different ages that under a kaleidoscopic proposal enter and leave as needle stitching colors with the intention of creating a unique tapestry femenine tapastry. Each stitch tells a piece of the story that complements or explores the antithesis of the next. They are all important and are essentially linked to the passage of time. Thus, the challenges and satisfactions of being a woman in contemporary society are unraveled.