An unhappily married man, who doesn't know how to break up with his wife, asks a womanizing Casanova to seduce her so that she'll leave him instead. But as he witnesses how his wife gets close...
The novel follows a woman, Modesta, who is born on 1 January 1900 and her experiences though her life in the twentieth century. The text is written for the most part in the first person (by Modesta), ...