Irene Vallejo sold more than a million copies of her book. The Argentine Alberto Manguel said: "With erudition and insight, she reminds us of the almost forgotten story of this little endearing and essential object that consoles us and helps us survive" The book is a novel-choral essay which tells the story of an antihero, Aeneas, cornerstone of the foundation of the Roman Empire.
It is the Aeneid, by Virgil, in a story where two female voices alternate, one male and the voice of a pagan god: Eros.