La vida en sordina

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Cuando la universidad fusiono el departamento de linguistica con el de ingles, el profesor Desmond Bates se acogio a la jubilacion anticipada, pero no la disfruta; anora la rutina del ano academico. El tardio exito profesional de su mujer, Winifred, cobra cada vez mayor pujanza y reduce al marido al papel de acompanante y «amo de casa», al mismo tiempo que el aspecto rejuvenecido de la conyuge torna mas incomoda la conciencia de la edad que les separa. Pero estos descontentos no son nada comparados con la congoja de la perdida auditiva, que es una fuente constante de friccion domestica y de dificultad social. Por culpa de su sordera, Desmond se ve enredado en las redes de una joven cuya conducta caprichosa amenaza con desestabilizar su vida de jubilado. / When the university merges the Linguistics and the English department, Professor Desmond Bates receives early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. The belated success of his wife, Winifred, reduces her husband to the role of her companion and ""house husband"", and her rejuvenated looks make their difference in age all the more uncomfortable. But none of this compares to the distress caused by the loss of his hearing, a constant source of domestic friction and social discomfort. Owing to his deafness, Desmond becomes involved in the world of a young woman whose impulsive behaviour threatens to completely destabilize his life of retirement.""A master of English writing"" (R. Saladrigas, La Vanguardia).