Author: Quino.
Publisher: Lumen
Pages:192
Melodramatic, gossipy, maternal, egocentric... And yet we love Susanita. “Quino’s characters transcend any geography, age, or social status.” -Minutes of the Prince of Asturias Award jury “Children! That’s all I ask of life,” announces Susanita with her impeccable hairstyle and a doll in her arms. The girl who dreams of marriage, lots of children, and a comfortable life while spreading gossip, prejudice, and melodrama with total self-assurance is the protagonist of this book, which brings together her most memorable cartoons. Her social ambition, fierce selfishness, simplifications, conventionalism, flirtatious and gossipy nature, and endless prejudices clash with Mafalda’s lucidity and turn every scene into conflict and laughter. With accurate and uncompromising humor, Quino paints a portrait that is as maternal as it is haughty and envious, a satirical mirror of a model woman who makes us laugh and, in passing, look at ourselves sideways.