El libro mas aclamado del escritor argentino Jorge Fernandez Diaz. Una historia de plena actualidad, un testimonio real, emocionante y poderoso sobre la emigracion.<> Una campesina espanola envia a su hija de quince anos a la Argentina de Peron.Una campesina espanola envia a su hija de quince anos a la Argentina de Peron. Quiere sacarla de la miseria, y le promete que pronto la seguira toda su familia. Pero algo falla, nadie viene, y la chica queda atrapada en un pais hostil, donde crece, se casa, lucha contra su destino y sufre el destierro mas cruel. Despues de muchos anos deja de sufrir y se hace argentina. Entonces sus hijos y nietos le anuncian que quieren irse a vivir a Espana para huir de la depresion economica, y todo vuelve a empezar.En los limites de la cronica periodistica, el relato confesional y la biografia intima, Mama narra las aventuras, pequenas alegrias y sinsabores de una mujer comun de clase media que bien podria ser la madre o la abuela de cualquier lector, y que plantea el gran dilema actual y de todos los irse o quedarse. Jorge Fernandez Diaz logro construir como narrador y protagonista un texto deslumbrante que atrapa y conmueve desde la primera linea, que funda un nuevo espacio del <> en nuestra literatura y que, de forma tan natural como indudable, ya se convirtio en un clasico contemporaneo.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe most acclaimed book by Argentine author Jorge Fernandez Diaz. It is a contemporary story, a real, exciting, and powerful testimony about migration and exile. A peasant woman in Spain sends her fifteen-year-old daughter to Peron's Argentina. She wants to get her out of the misery in which they live, and promises to her that the entire family will soon follow. But that plan fails, nobody comes, and the girl is trapped alone in a hostile country, where she grows up, marries, fights against her destiny, and experiences the most cruel exile. After many years she stops fighting and becomes Argentine. Then her children and grandchildren reveal to her that they want to move to Spain to flee the economic depression, and it all starts all over again. Encompassing all, a journalistic account, a confessional story, and an intimate biography, Mother tells the adventures, joys, and misfortunes of an ordinary middle-class woman who could well be anybody's mother or grandmother, and poses the great dilemma of all to go or to stay. Jorge Fernandez Diaz managed to construct a dazzling text, as a narrator and as protagonist, that captures and touches the reader from the first line, that introduces a new and "sense of truth and " in our literature, and one that has undoubtedly become a contemporary classic.