La Mujer is a short story written by Juan Bosch (30 June 1909 – 1 November 2001, a Dominican novelist, essayist, and political leader. “La Mujer” is one of Bosch’s most published stories, a story loaded with reality and an emotional impact whose echo still resonates in our societies, gender violence. The plot of the story is simple: A woman mistreated by her husband and thrown out of her house with her little son is rescued by a stranger. The husband and the stranger fight each other, and the woman kills the man who had helped her.
