Hay días en que estamos idos

Six stories, each built differently, find drama in the most domestic of situations. One brushes against the fantastic: a child vanishes somewhere inside his own home while his parents search for him in vain. Another has a Kafkaesque cut, an absurd stand-off between two people who refuse to follow any logic. A husband and wife struggle to revive a plant their son's football coach entrusted to him; a jobless husband is crushed by his wife; a couple and their maid are caught in a tangled triangle; a former actress wastes away in memories of her glory; a man looks on as an intruder takes his house and home from him. Ordinary people, simple knots: the threats that hurt most, the book suggests, are often already inside us.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

166 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Seix Barral

Author's age

43 when first published