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'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.' Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed accountant Martin Santome is about to retire. He assumes he'll take up gardening, or the guitar, or whatever retired people do. What he least expects is to fall passionately in love with his shy young employee Laura Avellaneda. As they embark upon an affair, happy and irresponsible, Martin begins to feel the weight of his quiet existence lift - until, out of nowhere, their joy is cut short.
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LibraryThing member shawnd
A forgotten treasure, most certainly. This novel, published in a first English edition in 1969 translated from Spanish, is set in Montevideo by a well known Uruguayan author and is perhaps his least well known work. The book is a first person narrative in the form of journal entries by a corporate
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accounting supervisor and widower approaching fifty years old. It is at once a philosophical treatise, ruminations of his marriage, a story of his parenting and engaging with his three children, and an unexpected love story. The romance is pared down to a palatable and undiluted simplicity. It is evocative, romantic, and heart-wrenching while expressing so many life truths without ramblings. A concise masterwork best read by women under forty and men over forty. Show Less
LibraryThing member csaavedra
Writing a review of this book would be giving it off. One can't speak of 'La Tregua' without telling too much about it, without depriving the reader of the discovery, page by page, of the lives of its characters.
So I will just say one thing: do yourself a favor and read this book. It's a wonderful
So I will just say one thing: do yourself a favor and read this book. It's a wonderful
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story and you won't regret. Show Less
LibraryThing member colligan
Probably one of the most honest and human books I've ever read. A simple but powerful masterpiece.