Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda and His Muse

Ode to an Onion: Pablo Neruda and His Muse

by Felicita Sala, Alexandria Giardino

About this book

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

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