El destino de un gato común

Colonel Ybarra is a retired ex-military man about to turn eighty. The years of discipline in the army are behind him and now a time of placid old age awaits him. But when his grandson Nicolás, a thoughtful ten-year-old boy estranged from his parents, goes to live with him, his life takes an unprecedented course and gives him the opportunity to make up for the cold relationship he had with his son Manuel in his childhood . The presence of a common European cat will establish a triangular relationship between them governed by harmony, thanks to the "unconscious intelligence" of the feline on the one hand and the innocence of the child on the other. The fate of three family generations and a common cat in a new lucid novel by Álvaro Pombo that reflects on the isolation between generations, the passage of time or the meaning of happiness through characters that go through the pages of the book for their authentic liveliness. The fate of three generations of a family and a common cat in an exceptional novel by Álvaro Pombo.