Matilde’s dad is always on business trips, from where he brings her gifts and sweets that you can’t buy in the store around the corner in your native Santiago. Matilda's dad often leaves for work, so he misses all parent-teacher meetings. Matilda's dad is an engineer and builds bridges in other countries. He cannot return, but Matilde visits him whenever she wants. Matilde repeated this fictitious story so often that she learned it by heart and believed in it herself. But the truth about dad’s disappearance is terrible and dangerous, you can’t tell about it - to anyone, ever. Matilde's mother and grandmother are trying their best not to deprive her of a carefree childhood and not to involve her in adult affairs, but Matilde cannot stay away, although she desperately wants to live a normal life like other children. 5 reasons to buy the book "Matilde":• New a book in the “Non-Children's Books” series once again shows how events in the adult world forever change the world of a child;• The debut novel by the Chilean writer Carola Martinez Arroyo in a brilliant translation by Daria Sinitsyna;• The story of growing up against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, shown through the eyes of a little girl who sets questions and does not lose hope;• Another reminder that human history is made up of many stories of individual people;• And “if you are not involved in politics, it will deal with you.”