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by Hagar Peeters; Vivien Glass (Translator)

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The abandoned daughter of Pablo Neruda speaks through "incandescent poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight."

Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature

Malva, a precocious eight-year-old ghost, is running amok in the afterlife with a cadre of other lost children. She searches for her father, the famous poet Pablo Neruda, and wants him to know the details of her small, but not insignificant life. Why did he abandon her, and her mother Maria? And what became of him? Who was he before he had a child? And what did she, his only child, mean to him?

From her omniscient perspective, the once disabled and mute Malva now travels through the world and through time, seeing her father as a young boy, later as he courted her mother in Dutch-Indonesia, and how his political passions drove his life. She scrutinizes every moment, seeking to understand and resolve her loss. With the wisdom of a child, she picks up her father's pen and conducts literary mischief, courting the great poets of our time and bringing her chosen ghostwriter, Hagar Peeters, news of her own father, who was a journalist in Chile during the coup and Neruda's mysterious death.... Startling, profound, and graceful, Peeters brings to readers the world Malva could not describe in life, an extraordinary story of love that spans earth and heaven.

Hagar Peeters (b. 1972), nominee for Dutch Poet Laureate, has won numerous prizes and published several volumes of poetry: Enough Poems Written About Love Today (1999), Suitcases of Sea Air (2003), Runner of Light (2008) and Maturity (2011). She spent ten years researching the life of Malva in The Netherlands and Chile. She lives in Amsterdam with her son.

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  • Title Malva: The Unknown Story of Pablo Neruda's Only Child, Told from the Afterlife
  • Author Hagar Peeters; Vivien Glass (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doppelhouse Press
  • ISBN 9780999754429 / 0999754424
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General

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Vivien Glass (b. 1975) is a literary translator from Dutch and German to English. She was born in Switzerland and moved to the Netherlands in 1995, where she completed degrees in translation and interpretation. Her published translations include works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's verse and more. She is recipient of the 2013 Nederland Vertaalt prize for her poetry translation, of a work by Gerrit Komrij.

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