Angelina Muniz-Huberman is arguably the best Jewish, woman writer in Mexico and in all of Latin America. In more than twenty books she has written fiction and non-fiction on Jewish themes and others.
In The Confidantes, two women gather to tell stories one day. As the stories take life, the two women become their own characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and myth evaporate like breath and words. Personal memories and nighttime dreams are woven into romances and exotic yarns from Casablanca to Catalunya. Plumbing the depths of human sentiment and existence, the confidantes lead us into veiled pathways rarely traveled.
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s writing is lyrical and alluring, and Andrea Labinger’s translation preserves the magic.
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I read the novel without stopping. What a delightful tribute to Scheherazade, and indirectly, to Cervantes. -- Ilan Stavans
Angelina Muñiz-Huberman has established a solid reputation as one of Mexico´s better women writers, one of its better Jewish writers, one of its better Spanish refugee writers, and indeed one of its better contemporary writers. -- Seymour Menton, World Literature Today
In The Confidantes we find a broad range of emotions, introspections, and thoughtful looks inside ourselves that truthfully show how unpredictable, obsessive and susceptible we are as humans.
-- Mary Carmen Sánchez Ambriz, Siempre
During a day and night two women, the confidantes, get together to tell stories, but little by little the narrators are transformed into the characters. -- Jorge Luis Espinosa, Unomásuno.
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