A bestseller in its time with four published editions, Blanca Sol (1889) was a highly controversial novel when it first appeared.
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Thought by many to be a roman a clef about a well-known woman of Lima\'s high society, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909) distanced herself from this criticism by making substantial changes for the second edition and by including a prologue stating her intentions of writing a realist novel, a social novel, inspired in reality, but not a copy.
A bestseller in its time with four published editions, Blanca Sol (1889) was a highly controversial novel when it first appeared