THE OTHER SIDE by Ariel Dorfman
Atom and Levana: 30 years of marriage, they live in a small country house under the bombs of a war                                                                                         between two neighboring countries. The war finally ends, but the new border passes through their                                                                                     home and to go from the kitchen to the bathroom you have to show your passport to the Kafkaesque                                                                              guard who monitors the couple's life day and night. Even the bed is divided in two and to find a moment                                                                                of intimacy the two protagonists have to hide under it, in the few moments when the guard is distracted.                                                                             And then this guard has a familiar look that resembles a sense of guilt: isn't it the son that years earlier                                                                                 the two parents had kicked out?
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