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Today, I choose "The Truce" or it original title "La Tregua". This is a book I read in high school about five years ago. I remember it because I usually hated another books that I must read for my spanish class, so this and "100 años de soledad" are those I liked and read with time before my exam of literature.

Mario Benedetti wrote this work in 1959 about a men called Martín Santomé. He works a lot, is widower and he has 3 children but they don't have a good relation and comunication with their. He is very lonely and his life is the same every day until he meet Laura, a young women who start working in the company of Martín. 

They fall in love and Martin´s life change in 360°. But this happiness is short because Laura dies suddenly, so Martin comes back to live his old life.  

I really like this story because Benedetti wrote it like a diary, where Martin left his feelings and adventures of his days. "The Truce" talks about routine and how we should enjoy every moment of our lifes because good and bad things come and go. 

 A review of the book on Amazon:

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

 Love, Life and Solitude 30 May 2001

By René Orellano - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

this is one of the greatest works by Mario Benedetti, a story of sadness, solitude and routine. One great virtue of this book is the way it transmits all the moods that the author is presenting through it's descriptions and the way of living of the characters. La Tregua is about love, life, and the reality of a world who doesn't allows us to live as we may want to. There is people who work for a living and there are many who live to work. Share with Martin Santomé and Laura Avellaneda the social dilema that Benedetti is Presenting us.

I'm completely agree with René, because Benedetti relates daily lifes (that are very difficult to described) in an interesting and delicate way.