Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse
Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse
By Alexandria Giardino
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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.
"Children who love words should warm to Alexandria Giardino's Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse . . . In Felicita Sala's vivacious and beautifully detailed drawings, done in colored pencil, Mathilde's smile and Pablo's glum expression give a tender humor to this real-life relationship." --New York Times
"Gloomy versus hopeful. Therein lies the timeless tension between Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda and his wife-to-be in this lovingly envisioned and supremely handsome book." --San Francisco Chronicle
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Book details
- Authors
- Alexandria Giardino
- ISBN
- 9781944903343
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Oct 9, 2018
- Publication year
- 2018
- Pages
- 40
- Dimensions
- 11.5 in × 0.5 in × 10.0 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Juvenile FictionPoetryConceptsOppositesBiographical