Name: The Light of the Fireflies
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Author: Paul Pen
ISBN: 9781503933545

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Pen

Publisher

Amazoncrossing

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781503933545

Synopsis "The Light of the Fireflies "

From bestselling Spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places.For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns.He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone’s been acting very strangely. The boy begins to wonder why they never say who the father is, about what happened before his own birth, about why they’re shut away.A few days ago, some fireflies arrived in the basement. His grandma said, There’s no creature more amazing than one that can make its own light. That light makes the boy want to escape, to know the outside world. Problem is, all the doors are locked. And he doesn’t know how to get out…

Paul Pen

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Paul Pen is a Spanish writer and screenwriter, born in Madrid in 1979. He was named New Fnac Talent 2011 after the publication of his first novel, El aviso (RBA), a debut considered "outstanding" by Babelia, the cultural supplement of the newspaper El País.

This novel has been translated into German and Italian. In 2013, he published his second novel, El brillo de las luciérnagas (Plaza y Janés), translated into English as The Light of the Fireflies (AmazonCrossing) and into German as Glühwürmchen, glüh (AmazonCrossing). In 2017, he published internationally his third novel La casa entre los cactus, translated into several languages. In 2019, his fourth novel Un matrimonio perfecto was published internationally, translated into English as Under the Water.

On 02/02/2022, he published his fifth novel La Metamorfosis Infinita.

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