Where is the center of the sea? Why do the waves never break there?
A book containing unanswerable, fantastical questions, inviting us
to be curious, while simultaneously embracing what we cannot know.
A New York Times Bestseller! Selected for the Academy of American
Poets 2022 Featured Fall Books List for Young Readers Starred
reviews in The Horn Book, Kirkus, SLJ, and PW! This bilingual
Spanish-English edition is the first illustrated selection of
questions, 70 in all, from Pablo Neruda's original poem (320
questions) The Book of Questions. Holding the wonder and mystery of
childhood and the experience and knowing that come with growing up,
these questions are by turns lyrical, strange, surreal, spiritual,
historical and political. They foreground the natural world, and
their curiosity transcends all logic; and because they are
paradoxes and riddles that embrace the limits of our ability to
know, they engage with human freedom in the deepest way, removing
the burden and constraint that somehow, we are meant to have
answers to every question. Gorgeously, cosmically illustrated by
Paloma Valdivia, here Neruda's questions, already visual in
themselves, gain a double visuality that makes them even more
palpable and resonant. So clearly rooted in Chilean landscapes as
they are, the questions are revealed as a communion with nature and
its mysteries.
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