The National Literature Prize winner’s memoirs of his youth offer an intimate and reflective journey through the author’s adolescence and young adulthood. With unforgettable anecdotes of life in the pampas, from work routines in the saltpeter mines to his first romantic adventures, the book reconstructs the essence of an era and the author’s formative years.

Rivera Letelier recounts his memories of those years of transition between childhood and adulthood with his endearing gaze, his backpacking throughout Chile influenced by the “flower revolution,” a period that for his generation would end with the military coup. A handful of anecdotes that reflect the author’s personal history and also that of his country.