Limpia

Life tends to be like this: one drop, one drop, one drop, one drop, and then we wonder, bewildered, how come we got drenched. Estela leaves her mother in the south to work in the home of a family in Santiago de Chile and there she stays for the next seven years, cleaning and raising a girl plagued by anxiety, whose death we learn at the beginning of the novel. As in a Greek tragedy, the tension grows on each page, with each character or element: the street dog, the rats, the unspeakable confession of the "sir", the appearance of Carlos, the poison, the gun, until such a powerful denouement. as unavoidable.