In this poignant novel a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment--reading to others. After an accident--or the misfortune as his cancer-ridden father s caretaker Celeste calls it--Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five he leads a dull lonely life chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools the City of Eternal Spring is now plagued by robberies kidnappings and the other myriad forms of violence bred by drug trafficking. At first Eduardo seems unable to connect. He movingly reads the words of Dostoyevsky Henry James Daphne du Maurier and more but doesn t truly understand them. His eccentric listeners--including two brothers one mute who moves his lips while the other acts as ventriloquist; deaf parents raising children they don t know are hearing; and a beautiful wheelchair-bound mezzo soprano--sense his detachment. Then Eduardo comes across a poem his father had copied by the Mexican poet Isabel Fraire and it affects him as no literature has before. Through these fascinating characters like the practical quick-witted Celeste who intuitively grasps poetry even though she never learned to read Fabio Morábito shows how art can help us rediscover meaning in a corrupt unequal society.

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