The truce

Author's name: Mario Benedetti

The diary of a widower (Martin Santomi) approaching retirement after spending his life as an accountant, and of moving forward with his three children, whom he finds himself forced to raise alone after the death of his wife.
He lives in anxiety, believing that his life has passed without him achieving anything worthwhile. Suddenly, a flash of love illuminates his life when a young woman appears, to whom Santomi becomes attached. The novel is a bitter, even tragically sarcastic portrayal of middle-class life in Uruguay, at a time when that class is turning its back on political and economic concerns, abandoning them amidst the frustration and suffering of its middle-class life to indulge in petty betrayals and limitless dreams.
Loneliness and lack of communication, love and happiness, death, and political problems are some of the issues readers face in The Truce, which has been translated into dozens of languages ​​and adapted for film, television, theater, and radio, but which has been, first and foremost, an exceptional pleasure for readers all over the world.
It is one of the most beautiful, powerful, graceful, and poetic love novels in Latin American literature.