Mientras pudimos

Eve Friedman is an eighty-three-year-old playwright who lives alone in a chaotic apartment in the heart of Manhattan. The chicken drumsticks on sale, the childhood memories that assail her in the pool and the late-night conversations with the doorman of her building are enough to keep her day to day bearable. However, when her path accidentally crosses that of Jorge, a young foreigner who has moved to New York to succeed as a screenwriter, her world unexpectedly reels. Throughout the close relationship they establish, the old woman will have to face a different loneliness than the one she had known until now, and the gradual but inexorable loss of her most precious gift: words. An intimate and tender novel that covers openly and with a clean and mature writing complex themes such as intergenerational friendship, senility and death.