El Susurro De La Mujer Ballena/ the Whisper of the Whale Woman

This year’s finalist for the Casam?rica literary prize, Alonso Cueto, portrays a secret friendship that becomes a frightening obsession. As young women, Ver?nica and Rebeca were intimately close, but their lives took completely different paths. Ver?nica became a successful journalist with a stable marriage, adoring son, and passionate lover on the side. Rebeca, conversely, has led a solitary life. A large, corpulent woman, she obsesses about her weight and, as the years go by, she also develops a fixation for her long lost friend. Rebeca slowly devises a plan to revenge an offense Ver?nica has long forgotten.