Desde las cenizas

‘A poignant portrait of an oppressive and suffocating domestic universe. Written with agility, fluency and beauty.’

Verónica Grossi (North Carolina University, USA)

Diana lives with her family in Uruguay, her husband and her children. She has all she could ask for, but she feels bored and lonely. And so do some people from her environment.

One day, however, she gets in touch via e-mail with a man she doesn’t know. They began an anonymous game in which they seduce each other. E-mail after e-mail, what at the beginning was a mischief ends up becoming a necessity: the e-mails are like a cure for Diana, an illusion that fills her empty days and makes her feel better.

One night, Claudia is invited to a dinner and she meets a man that sounds familiar to her, but not by his looks but by his words… who is this strange man?

Departing from a simple setting and a common story, Claudia Amengual builds a griping novel that analyses how some relationships have a certain caducity date and that the only things that keep them alive are commodity and habit.