Benedictine: the truce

The Truce novel Diary of a widower man (Martín Santomi) approaching retirement age after spending his life as an employee among accounting books, and in moving forward with his three sons whom he found himself forced to raise alone after the death of his wife. He lives in anxiety and sees that his life has passed without achieving anything worth mentioning. Suddenly, that life is illuminated with a flash of love when a young girl appears in it, and Santomi becomes attached to her. The novel forms a bitter, even sarcastic depiction with a tragic bitterness, of middle-class life in Uruguay, at a stage when that class turns its back on political and economic concerns, and withdraws from them amid its middle life frustration and suffering to indulge in small betrayals and boundless dreams. Loneliness and lack of communication, love and happiness, death, and political problems are some of the issues faced by the reader in The Truce, which has been translated into dozens of languages, and adapted for cinema, television, theater, and radio, but it was first and foremost an exceptional pleasure for readers around the world. It is one of the most beautiful and powerful, graceful, and poetic love novels in Latin American literature.