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Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry and woo local beauty Beatricewhile delivering mail to a Pablo Neruda at his island retreat.
The arrest of a friend's father and a school visit by an army captain who wants the children to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night" force Pedro to make a difficult decision.
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«Skármeta acredita aquí cualidades ya conocidas: amenidad narrativa, fluidez de la prosa, integración textual de la cultura literaria y sobre todo agudo sentido del humor.» Miguel García Posada, El País. Para el doctor Raymond Papst, su vida cómoda y tediosa no tiene otra emoción que jugar, de vez en cuando, un partido de tenis con su suegro, hata que a los cincuenta y dos años el destino pone en su camino a Sophie Mass, que, con quince años, se revela como una de las promesas de dicho deporte. Pero también es un torbellino erótico que entra en la existencia autocomplaciente y patética del médico para hacerla pedazos.
Skarmeta has achieved a complex narrative which nonetheless reads simply, with a smoothness that is not at all naive, because beneath the anecdotes are hidden other readings and thus, with intelligence and joy, the story expands and broadens.
A middle-age doctor falls for a 15-year-old patient. He is Dr. Raymond Pabst, an American sports physician, she is Sophie Mass, a German tennis star. A steamy romance.
"A jewel of a story."--The New Yorker
Provides a clear account of the issues in Spanish American fiction in the last quarter-century by attempting to answer questions on the Boom, Post-Boom, and its relation to Postmodernism.