A special kind of anxiety grips Martin Santome after he approaches retirement age. He sees that his life has passed without him achieving anything worth mentioning. However, something changes after hiring the young woman, Abeyanda, in the office where he works, as he suddenly experiences feelings of happiness. After his life had deprived him of her for many years, since the death of his wife and his having to raise his children alone.
Through Santome's diaries over the course of an entire year, Benedetti depicts for us the life of the middle class in Uruguay, expressing with great sensitivity the loneliness and lack of communication, love, happiness, and death, in a poetic narrative that qualifies this novel to be one of the most beautiful and powerful love novels. And elegance in Latin American literature.
FARIDA: Farida is a human social novel that embodies fraternal solidarity in the most difficult situations of life and depicts the nobility of sacrifices in the various pitfalls of life and ways to overcome them. It is a shining image of family compassion between siblings in all their life stages, in the presence and absence of parents.
إلى أفضل أب على الإطلاق بقلم تيم فينتون ... لا شيء يمكن أن يعدك تماماً لما تعنيه كلمة أبوة. هل تذكر عندما حملت طفلك بين ذراعيك للمرة الأولى وسألت نفسك: "ماذا سيحدث بعدئذ؟". لا يوجد دليل أو تطبيق معين يمكنك من خوض رحلة الأبوة. إنها رحلة عاطفية لا يمكن التنبؤ بها. تتخللها ضحكات ودموع، وأوقات مليئة بالمرح والمواقف المضحكة وغير المتوقعة، وبلحظات عزيزة ستحملها في قلبك إلى الأبد.
