Eleven years have passed since Miguel, Alethea, and Lucas met together in one place, when they were teenage friends, and since then, as soon as a connection occurs between two of them, the ghost of the third is present, so that the roles and desires change and it is not really known which of the two young people he loved. Alethea and those who abandoned her are defeated by the other.
In this special novel, the novelist Mario Benedetti dives into the depths of the human soul, contemplating a complex love triangle between two young men and a girl, leaving space for each of them to tell the story from his point of view through diaries, letters, and the story, so that it appears as a different story every time, as if it were three rivers. A small one that eventually flows into the same lake.
In this book there are pictures from the world of childhood in its openness to the world of adults, snapshots from the lives of children who receive their first lessons in the school of life and survival, and for the first time look out from the window of their reality and their ages at the world of adults and the prospects for the future that are shaped by an important historical and social stage, which is the Spanish Civil War: Seriousness, fun, drinking, singing, an atmosphere of war, and the sound of bombs. Waiting for a father who will not return, abandoning homes, being displaced from homes, and crossing lines. A life in shelters, a life in mines, the dreams of youth, and teenage love
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