欢愉的艺术

黄昏时分，小区露天咖啡馆里，几位好友相聚品尝浓郁咖啡。忽然，一位年轻人从包中拿出手机播放搞笑视频，瞬间引发一阵阵笑声。那欢快的笑谈让原本静谧的傍晚变得格外热和，大家在笑语中分享彼此的故事，度过一个愉悦的时刻。The novel follows a woman, Modesta, who is born on 1 January 1900 and her experiences though her life in the twentieth century. The text is written for the most part in the first person (by Modesta), but sometimes also in the third person, especially in the first part of the novel.