by Mario Benedetti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481303049
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«La tregua» is the novel by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, published by Bibliotex in paperback (158 pages, in Spanish).
Martín Santomé, a 49-year-old widowed office worker about to retire, keeps a diary about his monotonous life at the office and his disunited home. The arrival of Laura Avellaneda, a young employee, shakes up his routine and restores his hope. The novel moves through loneliness, lack of communication, love, sexuality, happiness and death.
The work was originally published in 1960. This 2001 edition is part of the collection Las 100 mejores novelas en castellano del siglo XX and includes a prologue by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
For readers looking for classics of twentieth-century Latin American literature and intimate stories about love and maturity.
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.
