La hora de la estrella

This is "the story of a wounded innocence, of an anonymous misery," a brief and intense vision of the absurdity of a dull existence, a routine devoid of both thoughts and affections, like that of Macabea, the insignificant and scrawny young woman from the Northeast permanently stunned, a girl who "did not know that she was what she was" and therefore "did not feel unhappy."