To Sebastián Edwards for the poems and his love. To Isabel Siklodi for her confidence in me. To Pablo Simonetti for his generosity. To Benjamin Moser for his biography of Clarice Lispector, whose life is interwoven in this novel with Vera Sigall’s and my own. To Marian Pollas for her account of the nocturnal excursions with her father to the Schmidt telescope. To Felipe Assadi for explaining to me the architectural details that preoccupy Daniel. To my editor Andrea Viu for her professionalism and her friendship.