La tregua is the story of Martin, a widower who begins to write the intimate details of his dull gray existence in a diary. But when a young new employee, Laura, bursts onto his office routine, Martin, a common but not mediocre man who is aware of his own limits and unattractiveness; unwittingly opens a luminous parenthetical statement in the diary of his life. Published in fifteen countries, translated into eight languages, and adapted for radio,...