A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.
Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren't made for
her, she isn't destined to have them, the only things she deserves
are ugly. It's why her main activity, when she's not at school, is
playing the 'prosopagnosia game' - standing in front of the mirror
and holding her breath until she can no longer recognise her own
face. Berta's mother is in her forties. By her own estimation, she
is at least twenty kilos overweight, and her husband has just left
her. Her whole life, she has felt a keen sense of being very near
to the end of things. She used to be a cultural critic for a
regional newspaper. Now she feels it is her responsibility to make
her and her daughter's lives as happy as possible. A man who claims
to be the famous Mexican artist Vicente Rojo becomes entangled in
their lives when he sees Berta faint at school and offers her the
gift of a painting. This sets in motion an uncanny game of assumed
and ignored identities, where the limits of what one wants and what
one can achieve become blurred.
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