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472 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1979
'The woman always pretended to be sleeping and to wake up with a small jolt, with assorted masculine names, dazzled with the remainders of a dream that not even my presence or any reality could compensate. I was famished, and my hunger was renewed and could not imagine itself without her. However, the satisfaction of this hunger, with all its thought and inevitable complications, soon transformed itself, for the woman and for me, in a price that we needed to pay.' (The Album)
“I calculated that twenty meters and less than thirty years separated us. Resting on forearms, I met her eyes, changed the pipe between my teeth, kept looking at her and her heavy bicycle, at the colors of her slender body against the trees and sheep landscape background that dimmed in the afternoon.”In “The Album”, the narrator asks the unknown woman, with whom he lies in bed, to tell him of distant and fabulous adventures; demands the stories with an eagerness greater than his desire for her. It all turns into disillusionment when he confirms that the stories were true.