Juego de memoria

At the Hoyos Moreno home for the elderly, a doctor takes on a new patient and thinks she sees a ghost: could the old man be Armando Cárdenas, the officer who, thirty years ago, subjected Irene to torture? Irene, a Wayuu woman, was the great love of the doctor's life, and the army probably killed her because she fought with the guerrillas and loved women. Now Cárdenas has Alzheimer's and depends on her. Should she honour her medical oath and care for him, or turn him away, force him to say what happened and get even? Reading the latest research, she comes to believe a patient's memories are not lost, only the way into them. The novel is her diary, begun as a release and turned into an obsession, told in very short chapters and interleaved with imagined exchanges between Irene and a soldier and letters between the two women.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

193 pages in the original

Genres

War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Colombia

First published

2017 by Tusquets Editores

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789584257000 (original)