Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseno a volar [Story of a seagull and the cat that taught him to fly SPANISH]

by Luis Sepulveda

Paperback, 2007

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Luis Sepúlveda prometió un día a sus hijos escribir una historia sobre lo mal que gestionamos los humanos nuestro entorno, lesionando la naturaleza y lesionándonos a nosotros mismos. Así nació esta historia, que cuenta las aventuras de Zorbas, un gato >, cuyo inquebrantable sentido del honor le conduce un día a comprometerse a criar un polluelo de gaviota. La madre, una hermosa gaviota, atrapada por una ola de petróleo vertido en el mar por un buque varado, le deja en prenda a Zorbas, justo antes de morir, el huevo que acaba de poner. Zorbas, que es gato de palabra, cumplirá sus dos preomesas: no sólo criará al polluelo, sino que le enseñará a volar. Los amigos de Zorbas, Secretario, Sabelotodo, Barlovento y Colonello, le ayudarán en una tarea que, como se verá, no es tan fácil como parece, y menos para una banda de gastos más acostumbrados a hacer frente a la dura vida en un puerto como el de Hamburgo que a ejercer de padres de una cría de gaviota…

[Luis Sepúlveda promised his children one day to write a story about how badly we humans manage our environment, injuring nature and injuring ourselves. This is how this story was born, which tells the adventures of Zorbas, a > cat, whose unwavering sense of honor leads him one day to commit to raising a seagull chick. The mother, a beautiful seagull, caught by a wave of oil spilled into the sea by a beached ship, leaves Zorbas as a pledge, just before dying, the egg she has just laid. Zorbas, who is a cat of his word, will fulfill his two promises: he will not only raise the chick, but will teach him to fly. Zorbas's friends, Secretary, Sabelotodo, Barlovento and Colonello, will help him in a task that, as you will see, is not as easy as it seems, and even less for a band of expenses more used to facing the hard life in a port like the one in Hamburg to act as parents of a young seagull ..]

Publication

Tusquets Editores (2007), Edition: 2001, 144 pages

Language

Original language

Spanish

Original publication date

1996

ISBN

8472237966 / 9788472237964

Physical description

144 p.; 5.47 inches

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