Buzón de tiempo

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ISBN: 84-204-3094-3    # of pages: 210
Publication date : 12/31/99
Imprint: Alfaguara    Format: Paper
Language: Spanish   Orig. Language: Spanish
Editorial: Alfaguara

Benedetti investigates various kinds of relationships and self-knowledge: lost loves; hints of other times; unrequited love; coming to terms with failure, aging, and death; inside jokes; and more. Benedetti evokes emotion using his best resources: intelligent wit, cutting irony, and moving tenderness.

El cumpleaños de Juan Ángel

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ISBN: 970-710-006-0    # of pages: 166
Publication date : 2/1/2001
Imprint: Punto de Lectura    Format: Pocket
Language: Spanish   Orig. Language: Spanish
Editorial: Alfaguara

When he awakes on his birthday, Osvaldo Puente, member of the middle class of Montevideo, is eight. Maturity takes the character by surprise, and by the end of the day, he is thirty-five. All this transpires in one day. The novel, written in blank verse, comprises Benedetti’s most daring experiment. Written while he was in Havana during his years of exile from his native Uruguay, this is work is a small but precious jewel.

Gracias por el fuego

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ISBN: 970-710-027-3    # of pages: 288
Publication date : 6/1/2001
Imprint: Punto de Lectura    Format: Pocket
Language: Spanish   Orig. Language: Spanish
Editorial: Alfaguara

In this novel, where reality hits hard, someone has to die to atone for accumulate guilt. This is a story of ignominy and death where the strengths and hidden weaknesses of humans are explored, and expressed through the assassination of the father. A ritual as old as it is powerful, it compels us to come to terms with our ambiguous nature, accepting and embracing it. Mario Benedetti surprises us again with his profoundly humanistic, vital and mature prose.

Pedro y el capitán

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ISBN: 970-710-007-9    # of pages: 105
Publication date : 1/15/2001
Imprint: Punto de Lectura    Format: Pocket
Editorial: Alfaguara

The torture practiced by totalitarian regimes in Latin America becomes the fighting ring in which the two characters in Pedro y el capitán square off. This hard-hitting story by Benedetti has been staged several times.

La sirena viuda

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ISBN: 84-95501-58-9    # of pages: 216
Publication date : 11/1/2000
Imprint: Punto de Lectura    Format: Pocket
Editorial: Alfaguara

The anxious await of workers for the approval of their raises, the slow and tranquil awakening of a man on his day off from work, the unique confession of a son to a person that knew his mother intimately…these most simple anecdotes of daily life are reflected with such splendor and vitality through Benedetti’s engaging prose. And as Benedetti himself affirms, “the story is a genre filled with traps, temptations, challenges, but also one of most gratifying...”

La tregua

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ISBN: 970-710-003-6    # of pages: 182
Publication date : 4/1/2001
Imprint: Punto de Lectura    Format: Pocket
Language: Spanish   Orig. Language: Spanish
Editorial: Alfaguara

“La tregua” is the story of Martín, a widower who begins to write the intimate details of his dull, gray existence in a diary. But when a young new employee, Laura, bursts onto his office routine, Martín, a common but not mediocre man who is aware of his own limits and lack of attractiveness, unexpectedly opens a luminous parenthetical section in the diary of his life.