Book Description | The diary of a widowed man (Martín Santomé) approaching retirement age after spending his life as an employee in the books of accounts, and in going out foot with his three sons who he found himself having to raise alone after his wife's death.
He lives in anxiety and he sees his life has passed without achieving anything worth mentioning. And suddenly that life shines a flash of love when it shows a young girl to whom Santome relates. The novel constitutes a bitter, even tragically bitter, depiction of middle-class life in Uruguay, at a stage where that class turns its back on political and economic worries, stepping aside amid the frustration of its centrist life and its struggles to indulge in small betrayals and infinite dreams.
Loneliness, lack of communication, love and happiness, death, and political problems are some of the things that the reader faces in the truce, which has been translated into dozens of languages and adapted for cinema, television, theatre and radio, but was first and foremost an exceptional pleasure for readers around the world.
It is one of the most beautiful, powerful, graceful, and poetic accounts of love in Latin American literature. |