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Firmin, Sam Savage

Title: Firmin
Original title: Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
Saga: Book independent
Author: Sam Savage
Publisher: Seix Barral
Synopsis: Born in the basement of a bookstore in Boston in the 60's, Firmin learns to read devouring the pages of a book. But a rat is a rat cultured alone. Marginalized by his family, seeks the friendship of his hero, the bookseller, and a failed writer. As Firmin that perfects an insatiable hunger for books, their feelings and their fears will become human. Original, bright and full of allegories, wastes Firmin humor and sadness, charm and nostalgia for a world that understands the redemptive power of literature, a world vanishes, leaving behind a rat with a creative soul, a unique friendship and a disorganized library.



Opinion:

Firmin is a rat. Not a mouse but a rat. is small (and esmirriao ) of a family of thirteen children Mom and rat. All these live in the basement of Pembroke Books library where the bookseller Norman saves old books that will sell. It is among these books where Flo (mother rat) builds its nest, namely between a copy of Moby Dick . Being a baby rat Firmin (baby esmirriao ) began nibbling the leaves of Moby Dick, then noticed the strange symbols that was gobbled up and eventually ended up learning to read and stop chewing paper to finish reading . Also, we meet to Firmin, a rat cultured, melodramatic and dreamy.

The truth is that I've never been right in the head. What happens is that I am not attacking windmills. I do something much worse: sleep with windmills attack, this attack looking windmills sometimes I imagine attacked windmills.

Sam Savage's narrative is neither too easy or too difficult, although it is true that sometimes I had to dip into the dictionary. Although, of course, the work is not juvenile or childish, despite what may seem at first sight , but adult. Firmin holds in its 220 pages the story of a rat who wants to be a person, their concerns, their loves and hates, dreams, hopes and hardships. We will be close to all persons who, as Firmin, we love to read and that deep (and not so deep) 're a little crazy.


So Firmin that kind of book you read lying in bed, savoring every phrase and imagine each scene as if you were yourself the rat that lies in a cradle words well, I read it under the table in English class, but they are minor details . In case you have not already noticed, it is highly recommended , if not indispensable .


In summary, Firmin is a declaration of love reading.




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PD: As you'll account, I deleted the scoring system for ink (yes, they were so cute, I know). But I've realized I'm not too ... objective when putting a note in a book and I see a bit of a nonsense, so I take out of all reviews.

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