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When her mother dies, Elena Rincón — 43, married, a mother herself — begins a slow reckoning with her own life: her mother, her husband Enrique, her daughter, her brothers. Notebooks left behind surface old griefs, and along the way Elena discovers Enrique has been having an affair with his secretary. Wandering the city without destination, she confronts a solitude that turns out to be less an ending than a kind of liberation. Winner of Spain's Premio Nadal in 1990.