by Mario Benedetti · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423322589
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«La borra del café» is the novel by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, published by Destino in paperback (217 pages, in Spanish).
Claudio grows up in several neighborhoods of Montevideo and recalls his childhood and youth: the games, the friendship with Mateo, the moves from house to house, and the awakening of love. Claudio's life is marked by two enigmas: the hour of three-ten and the fleeting appearance of Rita, the girl who once entered his room from the fig tree.
The work belongs to the Áncora y Delfín collection, number 702, and the first edition in Spanish was published in 1993.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature in Spanish.
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
