Nyaya inokukoka kuti utorezve kutenda. Hapana chekuita nekutenda kwechitendero. Asi, ndezvekutenda mumashiripiti ehupenyu, uko kwaunogona kungodzoka nemaziso emwana. Kutaridzika kwemwana iwe waunoona achimhanya nemugwagwa iye zvino kana uya wawanga uri iwe.
Mashiripiti mukuru Zabbatini akatenda zvakanyanya mumashiripiti, akararama mairi uye zvechokwadi akapa makore ake anofadza mukunyepedzera, munzira yekutenda kune inoshamisa, iyo isingawanzo kupera nekusagadzikana kwekuziva hunyengeri hwakareruka hunofambisa zvese, vachikanganwa kuti chakakosha Chinhu kunyepedzera. Muna 2007 Zabbatini haisisina kukura, asi murume akwegura azere kushushikana uye kufinhwa.
Max mukomana ane makore gumi ekuberekwa uyo anopedzisira asangana nen'anga kwaanogara kuLos Angeles. Zabbatini anoshamisika kuti mumwe munhu achiri kumurangarira. Kunyanya zvakadaro, mukomana mudiki uyo aisazombomuona achiita. Mukutanga kusada kwemashiripiti kune chimwe chinhu cheyakajairika zano, asi manzwiro ayo nyaya yacho yaanopa anobhadhara iyi poindi yekufungidzira (mune chero mamiriro ezvinhu zvakajairika kuti, kana isu tamira kuva nekutenda uye nekurota, zviri zvakatiomera kuti tidzokere kune iyo nzvimbo yemashiripiti)
Kusvikira mukuru Zabbatini amutsa ndangariro dzake dzehudiki, akatongwa nekunakidzwa kwaakange akabatwa neanofungidzira wenguva iyoyo. Mune iyo grey interwar Europe mwana achangobva kuwana izvo zvaaida kuva. Kwemakore mazhinji aiziva nezve zvinoitika zveanotaura zvemashiripiti, mumwechete mhando aiita kunge achibhururuka pamusoro pehurombo hwenhamo, Nazism uye zvese zvakaitika mukondinendi yakare.
Zvekare nezvazvino zvakapindirana. Max anoshandurwa kuve Zabbatini mumwana iye iye aive iye. Kuteterera kwake kuti akonzere mhando yemashiripiti pakati pevabereki vemukomana, pakati pekurambana, inopindurwa. Mukuita kwekubatana naMax, takararamazve hudiki hwaZabbatini muPrague. Akasiyana kwazvo nguva nenyaya dzakafanana dzerudo, kusuwa kwemoyo, kuora mwoyo uye kugara uchitarisira, mashiripiti, kutenda.
Iwe unogona ikozvino kutenga iro bhuku El truco, iyo nyowani nyowani naEmanuel Bergmann, apa: