** spoiler alert ** 
 My expectations for this book were so high, and I'm sorry to say I was disappointed. The reading was very dense, and for me, boring. I don't understand the point of the first chapter where such a big deal about the man who killed himself... I though it was totally irrelevant to the plot. I liked the ending I guess. I liked a senior couple being portrayed as "in love". I did not like Ariza telling Daza that he had remained true to her, when he had actually slept with many other women, and he was also a pedophile apparently.