A love story between two very different women that erupts in the summer of 1961 in an isolated house in the Netherlands. Isabel is a repressed, Calvinist woman, and Eva is Jewish, extroverted, and dresses flashy. These are enough elements to build an intrigue, but Yael van der Wouden's (Tel-Aviv, 1987) debut fiction novel goes much further: it speaks of desire and sex, but also of the legacy of history and what happens when we are complicit with the perpetrators. Writers such as Maggie O'Farrell and Tracy Chevalier have praised The guardian, which won the Women's Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Van der Wouden, who has lived in the Netherlands since she was ten, is now writing a new novel about a woman seeking a divorce in 1929. The guardian It is published by Amsterdam in Catalan, translated by Anna Carreras, and by Salamadra in Spanish.