About the book: 2017 / In the few months that the novel lasts, the provincial Colombian town of San Jose practically dies out, having fallen into the millstone of civil strife between guerrillas, drug mafia militants, and government troops, etc. The main character, an old teacher, has lost his wife in this turmoil, and he waits for her to the last on the family ashes, having crossed the line of despair beyond which indifference begins…