Historia De Una Gaviota Y Del Gato Que Le Esseno a Volar/The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly

ISBN: 0439560268

Author: Luis Sepúlveda

Award-winning author Luis Sepúlveda's tender novel that has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide is now available in an AALB edition of the original Spanish text for the North American market. It's migration time and as a mother gull dives into the water to catch a herring she's caught in an oil slick! Thinking of the egg she is about to lay she manages to extract herself and fly to the nearest port. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. Zorba wants to get help, but the gull knows it's too late and she extracts three promises from him: 1) That he won't eat the egg, 2) that he'll take care of the chick until it hatches, and 3) that he'll teach it to fly. The first two are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?