In The Living, the great Argentinean writer Martin Caparrs focuses on our relationship with death, on those who have died and on their disappearance from our lives. The Living is a story which goes form farce to tragedy, and vice versa, without ever losing any of its sharp perspective, emotion or startling prose. A daring and stunning novel, filled with humour and sadness, which offers a caustic vision of the contemporary world, with all its deceit, uncertainty and fundamental silences.