El ordenamiento del orden

Gualberto Baña

Novel. Editorial Random House Mondadori, Debate, Spain .207 pages

Montevideo, 1969. The country that for decades has been a role model of democracy in Latin America falls apart. In the middle of the daily growing social tension, some people try to understand what is happening and look for their destiny.

Diego, who is starting to live, feels betrayed because reality has nothing to do with what he has been taught in school.

Leonardo becomes an alcoholic because he cannot keep Raquel by his side, since the values he can offer are no longer of any use to her.

Susana, a prostitute, is obsessed by the many faces of her that mirrors reflect.

The city is under the spell of violence, since the strikes of the subversive Tupamaro movement are growingly frequent.

A lively mosaic about the crisis and the political transition in Uruguay in the sixties.

A novel with clear echoes of the best Onetti.

Published by: Spanish worldwide Debate, Random House Mondadori (contract expired)