by Mario Benedetti · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420600727
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«La tregua» is the novel by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, published by Alianza in paperback (161 pages, in Spanish).
The novel takes the form of a personal diary in which Martín Santomé, a widowed office worker nearing retirement, recounts his monotonous life between the office, home and the café. The arrival of a young employee, Laura Avellaneda, awakens in him an unexpected love that becomes a truce against routine, loneliness and the passage of time.
The novel was originally published in 1960 and is set in Montevideo. Mario Benedetti belonged to the Uruguayan Generation of 45.
For readers interested in Latin American narrative and twentieth-century classics.
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.
