Pre-Owned Como de la Familia (Paperback) 9788498386523

from Lunarreader

Third novel by this author and again spot on. Another social tragedy, it seems his forte, in a twisting and winding story about a couple struggling with everyday life, with their kid, with their relations, their jobs, almost with anything in fact, and a housekeeper, social assistant, relation con...

from Beamis12

3.5 They called her Mrs. A or Babette, never her real first name. She came into their lives when she was really needed, a widow that took care of his wife when she was confined to bed rest with their dirt child. She stayed and became nanny, cook, confidante and managed their lives with supreme ef...

from DetailMuse

Mrs. A. was the only real witness of the enterprise we embarked on day after day, the sole observer of the bond that held us together {...} In the long run, every love needs someone to witness and acknowledge it, to validate it, or it may turn out to be just a mirage. I have a fondness for littl...

from bell7

A husband and his wife, Nora, grapple with the death of their housekeeper in this elegiac novel. Mrs. A., or Babette, as our narrator fondly calls her after the character in a movie, has been a force in the lives of the young man, a physicist, and his wife, Nora, ever since she was hired when No...

from kendrabonnett

Very touching and moving book