blog 8!

Hi! In this opportunity I am going to speak about my favourite book, it is called “Gracia y el forastero”; It is one of the more important books in my country because It show a very important period in the development of Chile, “the dictatorship”.


The narration is about a young called Raphael, The mother of him had died when he was a child. He was son of a poor postman and Raphael lived with him in the smaller village’s house.

Raphael worked whit his father and one day he went to leave a letter to the house of an important general of the army, when he arrived to the house a beautiful young woman went out to receive the letter, she called Gracia and she was the general’s army daughter, they spoke for a moment and then Raphael returned to his house. After of this meeting Raphael could not forget to Gracia, and one day he decided go to the Gracia´s house for tell her that he was very in love of her.

Then they began a beautiful secret relationship because the Gracia´s father was very strict, and he wanted Gracia´s husband to go a general’s army and rich like him. He never left them to be united, for this reason Raphael and Gracia thought that the best solution was to have a son, finally when Gracia tell to her father that she was a pregnant woman he pushes to her for the stairs and she dies. Raphael was left very sad and alone, and he decides to go away to a seminar to be a priest.

I hope that you could read this book!!!