Springtime in a Broken Mirror
Description
After a brutal military coup in Uruguay, Santiago is taken as a political prisoner in Montevideo, surviving each day by writing letters to the family he cannot reach. Across the distance, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice tries to make sense of 1970s Buenos Aires, while Graciela—his beautiful, careworn wife—struggles to hold together love, ideals, and daily life in exile. As Santiago’s hope of freedom grows, the household’s fragile equilibrium is tested by the arrival of old loyalties and the unsettling pull of a rakish, reckless friend who casts a long shadow over Graciela’s choices. With Benedetti’s lucid, emotionally charged storytelling, this sweeping saga explores how history fractures families, how politics reshapes intimacy, and whether tenderness and memory can ever repair what violence has broken.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Classics
Published Feb 28, 2019
192 pages
ISBN: 9780241302620
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
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Content and trigger warnings for Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti.