El Cuarto de Los Sombreros

This book brings together two stories. In the first one, The Hat Room, two young women live for a while in the same house, they share walks and projects, they tell each other everything. But one day life separates them and they stop seeing each other. Years go by and one of them, who is already an old woman, finds out by chance that, shortly before she died, her old friend wrote a book about the time they shared. And she discovers that what is told in it is a strange love story between the two of them. A story that never happened and that, nevertheless, seems more real to her than all her memories from then. In the second story, The Liar, a girl believes she sees something in the darkness of a cave that will change not only her life but that of the community in which she lives, to the point of causing her misfortune. In neither of the two stories, as happens in fairy tales, things are what they seem.