A selection that gathers classical and modern short stories and explores each and every aspects of the matrimonial bond the joys and misfortunes of an institution that is ever changing but has survived through the times. With a foreword by Claudia Pineiro, it includes short stories by Augusto Monterroso, Katherine Mansfield, Giovanni Boccaccio, Leo Tolstoy, Clarise Lispector, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Infante Don Juan Manuel, Juan Forn, Sherwood Anderson, Rosa Montero, Francis Bret harte, Alberto Moravia, Anton Chekhov, Mario Benedetti, Leopoldo Alas Clarin, Carlos Fuentes, and Guy de Maupassant.