BOOKS FROM URUGUAYLa vida breve
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Set in Uruguay
Male author
Description:
La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausens wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens to a conversation between a man and a woman, happening on the other side of a wall, he imagines their gestures, their feelings. He wants to break the barriers of imagination, he wants to become another.
