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.
Cristina Fernandez Cubas does not introduce her heroines to us easily. She takes us on straight paths at first glance, and at one moment, she turns everything upside down. We discover that her characters are torn between two realities, the separation between which is very precise: the fixed reality, and the imagined or delusional reality. . One of them overpowers the other at times, and at other times a reconciliation occurs between them, without us knowing which of them truly exists, and which of them does not exist.
“Nona’s Room,” which won the Critics’ Prize in Spain (2015) and the National Narrative Award (2016), is a magnifying glass through which we see the complexities of the human soul and the mystery that surrounds our lives without us always succeeding in observing and understanding it. In it, “Cubas” reconsiders childhood and maturity. And loneliness and family, revealing to us that nothing is really as it seems, writing all of this in transparent language and in a unique style that gives it a detective touch, with skill and lightness.
Poor awareness:
Poor People of Consciousness, a book that includes stories mixed with the bitterness of reality and the texture of imagination, where I narrated the events of the stories so that I could raise the problems faced by some groups of people and according to the experiences of souls who suffered from the injustice of suffering. Stories that captivate the reader and make him think about their details, live their events, and compare them with his mistakes if he finds a similarity in them, so that he can think and make a decision... whether to continue or to rise to the highest levels of awareness and be enriched by them.
The stories are not true, but the extent of the suffering is real and based on the reality of hearts that suffered from the bitterness of ignorance and the control of negativity, hearts that did not learn until they suffered and lost a lot, hearts that paid an abominable price for their ignorance of the secrets of life.
Stories that make the reader think
Stories that make the reader learn and educate
Stories for lessons and benefits
Stories that positively change the way minds think
Stories are not just for entertainment
Stories that elevate you to be among the list of rich intellectuals
Sometimes I wonder, why don't we learn until we hurt? Why cannot we learn from the mistakes of others and reach the stage of awareness? It is true that experiences increase our experience in life, but why do we not make awareness reach maturity by learning from the mistakes of others and striving towards positive change in our lives?
The goal I seek in telling these stories is not just a narration of events, but rather to convey the ideas and lesson from each story to the honorable reader, as life is about lessons that we learn from the experiences we go through, and in the end the lesson is not to repeat mistakes and enhance awareness of the positives.
My prayer is that everyone will benefit from reading the stories I mentioned. A person may see himself in a similar situation and may think I mentioned it, but that is not the point of publishing the book.
