Unlike the rest of the men in his village, Mario decides not to spend his life as an ordinary fisherman, so he decides, using his bicycle, to work as a postman in a small village, even though it only has one person who receives and sends letters. Chile's greatest poet, Pablo Neruda.
In his exile there, the poet lives as an observer and participant in the great changes taking place in Chile, and through small meetings and discussions about love, poetry and politics, a special relationship is established between him and the young postman who is immersed in love and enchanted by Neruda’s poetry, which he sees as his right because poetry does not belong to its writer but to those who need it. .
Through charming details of the human relations in a small village between the poet steeped in politics and the postman in love steeped in poetry, Scarmeta recounts the great political changes that took place in Chile and the rise and fall of revolutionary dreams.
The book tells the story of seventeen-year-old John, who suffers from autism. His parents see the good in him, but the surrounding world only sees his faults.
John often made mistakes and always misunderstood things. He tries to fulfill the requests of the people around him to gain their satisfaction.
It is a tough period of development, bordering on isolation and difficulties at school.
John falls into the trap of his rivals and commits aggressive acts that lead him to decline.
But who bears John's fate?
Animal Friends is a poignant and transparent novel about isolation and vulnerability. Depicts the nostalgia and connections that can bind vulnerable people to each other.
The horizons of storytelling integrate like small overlapping circles, forming a tight narrative world.
Searching for a wife:
Hello Al-Saa.. I would like to introduce myself to you.. I am Hamid bin Ali, (I know what you say and yes) and there is no need to tell you my last name (I know it is important).. I am now thirty years old and turning thirty-one, graduated from the American University and specialized in sciences. Politics and I also studied information technology.. You say where politics is about information technology.. But I come to love both specializations?.. Two specializations.. Not good, but I have the opportunity to work in both specializations.. I am a self-made person and I do not have youthful affairs or useless evening parties.. I pray my obligatory prayers, praise be to God.. I fast voluntarily on a day, may God help me.. and I like to read the Book of God on a daily basis after the dawn prayer.. I am the second child in the family, and next to me are my three sisters, Noura, Hamda, and Salama.. I was looking for a wife according to my personal specifications, and I told my mother, of course. And the search journey began (my mother's Google was working)... Let me tell you the stories I encountered during this journey..
Are you ready? (Oh God, we put our trust in God..)
