by Mario Benedetti · Punto De Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466300681
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«La borra del café» is a novel by Mario Benedetti published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (189 pages, in Spanish).
Claudio goes back to his childhood and, from fragments of memory, recovers anecdotes, people and historical events that marked him. The novel dwells on the desolation at his mother's death, the awakening of love and sex, social awareness and the assumption of pleasure and pain; at bottom, the sediment left by years and loved ones.
Mario Benedetti (1920-2009) was a Uruguayan writer, author of this novel originally published in 2000.
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
