Description
A poetic, beautifully illustrated picture book inspired by Ode to the Onion by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904–1973). Pablo has a lunch date with his friend Matilde, who shows the moody poet her garden. Where Pablo sees conflict and sadness, Matilde sees love and hope. The story is less a biography of Neruda and his muse, Matilde Urrutia (1912–1985), and more a simple ode to a vegetable that is humble and luminous, dark and light, gloomy and glad, full of grief and full of joy—just like life.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
48 pages
Language
French
Published
May 22, 2019
Publisher
CAMBOURAKIS
ISBN-10
2366244169
ISBN-13
9782366244168