El alfabeto de los pájaros

The Alphabet of Birds | Seix Barral, marzo 2011

» The novel has been selected as a recommended title by the National Brazilian Foundation for Children and Young Adult's Books (FNLIJ) and is among the shortlisted titles to the best young adult novel in translation published in Brazil in 2014.

A novel about what it means to be an adopted child, about forgetting and remembering, about the ferocious wounds provoked by abandonment and about the moving strength of love. But above all, it’s a novel about the power of the imagination.

Nix is six years old, she was born in China and she’s adopted. She loves her family very much, but the pain of being abandoned torments her. Only the stories her mother invents makes her feel better. But the pain always returns. The little girl believes that the secret of happiness lies in the belly in which we live before we’re born and that, in order to be happy, she must return to the womb of her Chinese mother, the place where it all began. Only by going back to the beginning will she be able to learn who she is, to make sense of her new life and finally be able to eliminate the angst of so many unanswered questions. But the journey isn’t possible. Or is it?

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