Esta es la historia de una familia amarrada por una trama obsesiva, entre la precariedad del cuerpo, sus males incesantes y la inminencia de la p rdida.

En esta particular biograf a cl nica de todo un clan, cada miembro va eludiendo los embates de la vida con ansiedad, con afecto, con resentimiento y violencia, con culpa, con imaginaci n, con chispazos de humor negro. Y con malentendidos que hacen saltar los circuitos del nerviososistema familiar.

El pasado y el presente orbitan por estas p ginas narradas desde la perspectiva de una protagonista que, radicada en el extranjero, mantiene un equ voco contacto consu familia mientras intenta escribir una tesis astron mica y va intern ndose por agujeros negros cada vez m s profundos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Chilean author Lina Meruane establishes her prestigious literary career with a novel about the links and commonalities between the body, a disease, and family ties.

This is the story of a family tied up with an obsessive plot between the body's instability, its persistent illnesses, and the imminence of loss.

In this clinical biography of an entire clan, each member avoids life's devastations with anxiety, affection, with resentment and violence, guilt, imagination, and with sparks of dark humor; and with many misunderstandings that jump-start the family's nervous system.

The past and the present circle around these pages from the protagonist's point of view, one who lives abroad and keeps a long-distance contact with her family while she tries to write a complex thesis.