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“An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable.” —The New Yorker This lyric portrait of a boy’s companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.
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Platero and I, Juan Ramón Jiménez
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- 2010
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- Title
- Platero and I
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0292788592
- ISBN13
- 9780292788596
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Poetry, Classics, Spanish Literature, Spain, Nobel prize
- Original title
- Platero y yo
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- “An exquisite book, rich, shimmering, and truly incomparable.” —The New Yorker This lyric portrait of a boy’s companionship with his little donkey, Platero, is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature. Poetic, elegiac, it reveals the simple pleasures of life in a in a remote Andalusian village and is a classic work of literature, beloved by adults and children alike.