Live your life moment by moment with all its details and enjoy it.. and give it time.. and never rush so as not to regret it.. life is short.. and if time passes, it will never return and will not be repeated..
Does she want a boy:
Sin, who is almost forty, is trying her best to have a boy before she reaches menopause. She tries different ways to find a suitable husband who will give her a child who will fill her life, which she lived alone after losing her family and being isolated from the rest of them.
A novel about the longing for motherhood and the hardship of commitment after years of singleness, about family, blood relations, and the conflicts faced by women whose marriage is delayed.
Remembering his childhood, Miguel tells of a wooden statue the size of a man, carved by a musical instrument maker before his death, so the people of Itape decided to place it at the top of the hill, so that it would become a landmark of the village. Massive events and wars take place, and the novel branches out to narrate the events of two decades of Paraguayan history, before returning to that hill with its steadfast statue, which has become very symbolic.
Rua Bastos shows history from the perspective of ordinary people, poignantly depicting their attempts to rebel against authority, revealing the brutality of the ironies of history when these people are forced to kill and die in senseless wars that they fight while standing with the very authority against which they rebel.
Using a linear sequence in narrating the events of his novel, and painting a huge mural about Paraguay, Rua Bastos writes, in a tight plot, his novel, which the great Argentine writer Borges said was one of America’s best novels...
