Description
A crime novel without a murder, built on an intricately woven web of acute reflections on life.
A novel unanimously hailed by the most eminent critics and readers alike as the greatest literary revelation of the last thirty years.
Juan, a young conference interpreter, is going through what seems to him a pivotal and difficult moment in his life: he is getting married. His sense that this will change his life completely proves entirely correct, though in a wholly unexpected way. Soon afterwards he learns by chance that his father has been widowed three times, and that one of his wives took her own life.
Why did his father advise him, on his wedding day, never to reveal his secrets to his wife? Will the young man manage to unravel the mystery of a young woman's puzzling death?
Poetic sentences with a captivatingly subtle rhythm, long phrases full of reflection and doubt, and an extraordinary, rarely encountered precision in analysing the characters' words and deeds: these are the strengths of one of the author's finest novels.