Author: Luís Sepúlveda
- Fiction
- Tusquets
- ISBN: 9788472237742
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

In this magisterial novel, Luís Sepúlveda presents a gallery of characters marked with the sign of failure. Insurance agents, German spies, and a series of rootless Chileans appear in a story that covers the history of world politics in the last decades of the 20th century. His background themes are the failure of utopias and need to survive in spite of all obstacles and failures.