A novel about loneliness and lack of communication, love and sexuality, death and political problems.

Martín Santome, a widower with three children, on the eve of his retirement begins to record in a newspaper his gray and unremarkable life. The daily life of the routine in the office and that of a disunited and tense home will be altered when the young Laura Avellaneda, his new employee, bursts into his routine. And this man, almost without intending it, decides to open in his life a luminous parenthesis.

The truce has been translated into dozens of languages and has been adapted to film, television, theatre and radio, but above all it has enjoyed the exceptional reception of readers around the world.