An earlier future is a love story, a wild investigation into one's own past, a requiem for lost friendships and a letter thrown into the future.

They meet at a party in Buenos Aires. They are young, they go out every night and the future is for them an unknown land of promises and brilliance. However, things soon get complicated, because she starts dating a friend of his and then they are forced to have a secret relationship that reaches dramatic peaks and threatens to destroy everything.

Will they dare to take a step further, to be together without hiding even if that means revealing the betrayal? How will he manage to cope with the guilt? Will the attraction they feel be able to transform into a real project? These are some of the questions that hover over this novel, which deals with a love story but also an emotional transformation. Told over a decade, on the verge of the end of youth, A Previous Future opens the black box of a couple to try to understand how they came to be what they are, with all the mistakes they made and also with all their successes. It is also a recounting of the people and things that were left behind along the way, of what we are willing to sacrifice to reach the mirage of happiness.

In his new book, Mauro Libertella combines narration and essay with astonishing ease and walks along the precipice that separates literature from life, giving voice to a masculinity that lets itself be crossed by emotions. Written in crystalline and beautiful prose, A Previous Future is at the same time a wild inquiry into one's own past, a requiem for lost friendships and a letter thrown into the future.