Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse

ISBN: 1944903348

Author: Giardino, Alexandria

Condition: Used

Alexandria Giardinoand Felicita Salas poetic, beautifully illustrated picture book is inspired by Ode to the Onion by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973).A Junior Library Guild SelectionPablo 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 Giardinos Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda & His Muse . . . In Felicita Salas vivacious and beautifully detailed drawings, done in colored pencil, Mathildes smile and Pablos glum expression give a tender humor to this real-life relationship. -New York TimesGloomy 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