Platero and I

"An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable." —The New Yorker

This lyric portrait of a boy's companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.

© 2010 University of Texas Press (Ebook): 9780292788596

Fecha de lanzamiento

Ebook: 5 de julio de 2010