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The Truce

By Mario Benedetti

The Truce book

The Truce

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'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martín Santomé is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda. As they embark upon an affair, happy and irresponsible, Martín begins to feel the weight of his quiet existence lift - until, out of nowhere, their joy is cut short. The intimate, heartbreaking diary of an ordinary man who is reborn when he falls in love one final time, this beloved Latin American novel has been translated into twenty languages and sold millions of copies worldwide, and is now published in Penguin Classics for the first time.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2015-08-27
Publication Date:
2015-08-27
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141396857
ISBN13:
9780141396859
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
152 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm

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