A special kind of anxiety grips Martin Santome after he approaches retirement age. He sees that his life has passed without him achieving anything worth mentioning. However, something changes after hiring the young woman, Abeyanda, in the office where he works, as he suddenly experiences feelings of happiness. After his life had deprived him of her for many years, since the death of his wife and his having to raise his children alone.
Through Santome's diaries over the course of an entire year, Benedetti depicts for us the life of the middle class in Uruguay, expressing with great sensitivity the loneliness and lack of communication, love, happiness, and death, in a poetic narrative that qualifies this novel to be one of the most beautiful and powerful love novels. And elegance in Latin American literature.
A literary work in the form of modern poetic texts and prose that takes the reader on a journey of self-exploration and diving into the depths of human feelings, values, principles, and meanings. The first station of the journey will be with the psychological struggle to be liberated from the shackles of fears and obstacles, followed by the station of contemplation and contemplation of all the lessons of the school of life, followed by the station of revealing feelings of love and joy, and then humanity and loyalty to the homeland, and then passing by the station of singing coffee and everything that enchants the mood, and travel and wandering. , longing, vague feelings, love for one’s family, and lamentation for the departed, ending with the station of monologue and holding onto the rope of God.
