The novel that won the Azorin 2013 literary award in Spain is based on an episode in the life of the surrealist photographer Dora Maar. She was immortalized by Pablo Picasso in a series of portraits known as the {Weeping Woman}. Valde s' novel is the second in a trilogy about surrealist women artists. This prolific writer began the series with the publication in 2010 of {La cazadora de astros}, a novel inspired by the life of the Spanish-born artist Remedios Varo. The novel's plot centers on the obsession a young Cuban e migre in Paris feels when she chances to see at a distance the frail and elderly Maar on a Paris street when the former artist is returning from mass. Maar had largely withdrawn from her social and artistic circles soon after Picasso had left her for another woman. With time she had grown deeply religious. The Cuban narrator in the story is obsessed with Maar, whose surrealist photographs she had by chance seen in a book when she was young and confused in Havana. It is a story, therefore, based on feminine obsessions and the complicated role of women as artists. It evokes the legendary Parisian vanguard cultural and artistic scene of the first half of the 20th century interlaced with scenes of the current Cuban cultural diaspora of the 21st century. A novelistic parallel is drawn between the tale of two displaced artists, the surrealist artist and the Cuban narrator. [DAA]