Fantasmas En El Balcón / Ghosts in the Terrace

"How to describe this harmony of things so deeply inharmonic, destined only to a single moment of happiness?" We are all our future ghost. We carry it within us as the seed of what we will become. This is a novel about what six inordinate friends were--and are as we read; all inhabitants of a boarding house carefully evoked, facing a park full of jacarandas in Mexico City, back in the 1960's. The youngsters at the house spend their time outdoors. They are not heroes, but of the briefness of their age. Their modest epic consists in exerting a wild fraternity. They are wrapped around the randomness of a burgeoning city, sought-after nights, and the prelude to endless love that is brief sex. Ghosts in the Terrace is a novel about the nostalgia of a past time, escaping our grip and taking us with it. It is a story about ghosts, as every story about joy should be.--Translation of the Spanish summary from the publisher.