Springtime in a Broken Mirror

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:Mario Benedetti

页数:192

译者:Nick Caistor

出版时间:2018-3-29

价格:0

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780241327203

图书标签:拉美长篇小说流亡政治家庭Mario-Benedetti

An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel, translated into English for the first time.

Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane.

Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother - Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela - struggle to adjust to a life in exile. Graciela fights to retain the fiery passion that suffused her marriage, her politics, her whole life, as day by day Santiago edges closer to freedom. But Santiago's rakish, reckless best friend is a constant, brooding presence in the exiles' lives, and Graciela finds herself drawn irresistibly towards him.

A lucid, heart-wrenching saga of a family torn apart by the forces of history, Spring with a Broken Corner tells with tenderness and fury of the indelible imprint politics leaves on individual lives. Generous and unflinching, it asks whether the broken bonds of family and history can ever truly be mended.