by Mario Benedetti · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420638218
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«La tregua» is the novel by Mario Benedetti, published by Alianza in hardcover (171 pages, in Spanish).
Martín Santomé, a widower and office worker in Montevideo about to retire, pours his grey life into a personal diary, divided between the office, the café and a complicated relationship with his adult children. The arrival of Laura Avellaneda, a young employee under his charge, awakens in him a passion that seems to offer him a truce from tedium and loneliness.
It is number 75 in the El Libro de Bolsillo collection, Biblioteca Benedetti, from Alianza.
Suitable for readers of Uruguayan literature classics and intimate stories about routine, loneliness and love.
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.
