I really like this - new to me -author, 2nd book of his I've read easily. As described, this is a book to read in a half hour - a stepfather and his young stepdaughter - a little about relationship with child's mother, how they met, a few "real" details, but mainly just a flow of how an evening ...
I got home only half an hour before Raúl, which made my espionage dangerously useless. I decided I had to go deeper, I had to take decisive action, do my job better. One night, I was walking along the top of the brick wall and I fell into the bushes. I fell hard. Raúl came out right away, very fr...
(1) In Chile, no one says hi to each other in elevators. You get in and pretend you don’t see anyone, you pretend you’re blind. And if you say hello, people look at you strangely, sometimes they don’t even return the greeting. You share your fragility in silence, like a sacrifice. &n...