An extraordinary story of love & exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel, translated into English for the first time Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family, & try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa & mother
- Santiago`s beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela
- struggle to adjust to a life in exile. Graciela fights to retain the fiery passion that suffused her marriage, her politics, her whole life, as day by day Santiago edges closer to freedom. But Santiago`s rakish, reckless best friend is a constant, brooding presence in the exiles` lives, & Graciela finds herself drawn irresistibly towards him.A lucid, heart-wrenching saga of a family torn apart by the forces of history, Springtime in a Broken Mirror tells with tenderness & fury of the indelible imprint politics leaves on individual lives. Generous & unflinching, it asks whether the broken bonds of family & history can ever truly be mended.