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'Clean' is one big monologue in which cleaning lady Estela takes her time to tell in detail 'what happened to the girl'. As in Garcia Marquez, we learn on the first page that the girl is dead.

What follows is a large flashback of how Estela entered the household of a well-to-do, correct but slightly strange married couple in Santiago de Chile. The story reminded me of those domestic French thrillers, as things slowly unravel.

But it is also a social criticism of class differences. I noticed in Madrid, and maybe in Chile it's the same, that it is not uncommon to have a nanny living with the family, in a small room, not necessarily treated badly, but not having much of a private life of her own either and spending more time with the children of the family than her own.

I wouldn't say it's a masterpiece but it's a well-written and engaging read. Especially the relation between Estela and the couple was very well done.