Point of View

The novel is written in third-person from an omniscient perspective. The author tends to focus on one perspective at a time to reveal the overall coverage of events. This means that the reader sees scenes from the perspective of one character, though more than one character may be present and actively participating at any given time. For example, the perspective remains on Daniel when he and Nick remain at Vallecas one Sunday evening for a dance. Daniel, Nick, Ana, Rafa, Julia, and Antonio are all present at this dance. However, in Chapter 84, the reader sees the events solely from Daniel's perspective. That is important at one point when Ana kisses him on the ear, because she does not reveal how she mustered the courage or why she did it. Daniel is left wondering if it actually happened. Nick encourages Daniel to leave, and the reader...