Home Reading Service

For a petty offence, Eduardo is ordered to spend twelve months doing community service, which means visiting the homes of old and ailing people to read novels to them. He has a fine voice but no feel for literature, and the words slip past him without meaning; his listeners notice and tell him so, and the pleasant calls become a series of small battles that force him to look at himself. Stuck in a sleepy provincial city of endless spring and countless swimming pools, where crime is never far away, he gets caught up in sinister events. On his way he meets a mysterious woman poet and a deaf family, while his own father lies ill.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

161 pages in the original

First published

2018 by Sexto Piso

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9786078619047 (original)

9781635420722 (Other Press, United States)