Asomados al pozo

One man remembers being bullied in first grade and, with a flood of other memories, the summer two sisters visited his family's house in the hills of Córdoba and became both his playmates and confusing objects of desire, at the age of his sexual awakening. Another man travels the world as an external auditor of companies; in every hotel room he repeats the same obsessive rituals, including reveries about a childhood in Germany, the war and the enigmatic Helga, whose image follows him everywhere. Their two stories, told from a muddled reconstruction of the past, alternate and finally intersect, testing how far memories can be trusted.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

361 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Argentina, Germany

First published

2021 by Clarín/Alfaguara

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789870746782 (original)