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La tregua (The Truce)
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La tregua (The Truce)

Written by Mario Benedetti

Narrated by Francisco Rivela

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Martin Santome, viudo con tres hijos en visperas de su jubilacion, comienza a registrar en un diario intimo su vida gris y sin relieve. La vida cotidiana de la rutina oficinesca y la de un hogar desunido y crispado se veran alteradas cierto dia, cuando irrumpe en su opaca existencia la joven Laura Avellaneda, nueva empleada a sus ordenes. Y ese cincuenton, hombre mediano pero no mediocre, consciente de sus limites y su desgana, decide abrir, casi sin proponerselo, un parentesis luminoso.
LanguageEspañol
Release dateApr 17, 2009
ISBN9781428197930
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La tregua (The Truce)
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Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. He is considered one of the most important twentieth-century Latin American writers. He won the Queen Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Award in 1999, and the José Martí prize in 2001. He was the author of many works of poetry, essays, drama, and fiction, including the novel Springtime in a Broken Mirror (forthcoming from The New Press).

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Probably one of the most honest and human books I've ever read. A simple but powerful masterpiece.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Writing a review of this book would be giving it off. One can't speak of 'La Tregua' without telling too much about it, without depriving the reader of the discovery, page by page, of the lives of its characters.

    So I will just say one thing: do yourself a favor and read this book. It's a wonderful story and you won't regret.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A forgotten treasure, most certainly. This novel, published in a first English edition in 1969 translated from Spanish, is set in Montevideo by a well known Uruguayan author and is perhaps his least well known work. The book is a first person narrative in the form of journal entries by a corporate accounting supervisor and widower approaching fifty years old. It is at once a philosophical treatise, ruminations of his marriage, a story of his parenting and engaging with his three children, and an unexpected love story. The romance is pared down to a palatable and undiluted simplicity. It is evocative, romantic, and heart-wrenching while expressing so many life truths without ramblings. A concise masterwork best read by women under forty and men over forty.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    En forma de un diario íntimo nos adentramos en la vida de Martín Santomé, 49 años y a punto de jubilarse...viudo desde los 28 años y con tres hijos, ya grandes... vemos entonces, como la vida, para bién o para mal por muy cotidiana que nos parezca, nos hace revivir sentimientos que, creíamos que habían muerto hace mucho tiempo...Historia tán real, que tal parece que somos nosotros los protagonistas...tán real que por alguna extraña razón, nos hace pensar que ya hemos vivido algo similiar o que sospechamos que algo de esto, nos depara el destino...