I finished Corazón tan blanco. I guess it is fine if that's the kind of thing that you like. Everything exists in triplicate here. Every character, every situation, is not only squared by cubed. The intertext is there for you to find: Macbeth, from which the title of the novel comes.
The narrator's father, Ranz, the only character in the novel who is a full, well-rounded character, murdered his first wife to marry the second. Confessing his crime to wife 2 on the honey moon, he sets in motion her suicide. He then marries the sister of wife 2, the mother of Juan, the narrator.
He confesses to Luisa, Juan's wife, while Juan listens from an adjoining room. This is the logical solution, of course,
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