CHAPTER 17When Cristian returned home it was almost eight o'clock. He was physically and mentally tired. In the new post he had obtained in the publishing house it was clear that his employers would not simply give him the salary as a present, but he had to struggle to earn it and he was going to defend his position with tooth and nail. He had never had before a position of responsibility as the current. It involved a certain social life that Cristian didn´t care much about, but he had to recognize that attending meetings of editors and writers with Khaliyha gave him an enhanced visibility since his wife became naturally and spontaneously in one focus of attention. While his Spanish was still incipient, she expressed herself in a grammatically correctly way, and her marked French accent wa
