A fed-up family, a servant, a mysterious death – and the question of whether we really have the prejudices that Alia Trabucco Zerán wants to show us with her novel “My Name is Estala”.
The end is clear from the beginning: the child is dead. The housemaid Estela doesn’t even try to avoid this fact; there is no punchline that her story is heading towards. From page one it is clear what is happening. So the question that arises is: how? And secondly: why?