En la ciudad de Lima, poco antes de la ascension de Fujimori al poder, cinco jovenes viven de espaldas a la desesperanza, inmunes a una realidad que se bate entre los atentados terroristas y una inflacion galopante.Estudiantes universitarios, periodistas, taxistas: gente de clase media que cree por momentos ser ajena a la realidad politica y social que va cercando sus vidas. Pero pronto descubren que se trata de un equivoco fatal, que no hay forma de volverle las espaldas a nuestras propias certidumbres. La otra gran protagonista de la novela es la propia Lima, a la vez querida y odiada, una ciudad erosionada por la corrupcion y la violencia donde todavia se puede caminar en silencio y escuchar el mar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONIn Lima, shortly before Fujimori took power, five young people lived immune to a reality that went between terrorist attacks and a galloping inflation. There were mid-class people who believed their lives were not affected by the political reality. But soon they discovered that they were mortally wrong. The other great protagonist of the novel is Lima, loved and hated at the same time, a city eroded but the corruption and the violence where one can still walk silently and hear the sea.
