β Scribed by Mario Benedetti
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the tradition of Roberto Bola Γ±o's Savage Detectives, a celebrated classic and heart-wrenching story of a family torn apart by the forces of history, by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers
The late Mario Benedetti's work was often ranked with "such esteemed Latin American writers as Gabriel GarcΓa Marquez, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortazar" (The Washington Post) and his novel The Truce has sold millions of copies around the world. His extraordinary novel Springtime in a Broken Mirror revolves around Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, who was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family and try to stay sane.
Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother--Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela--struggle to adjust to a life in...
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