Malva

By Hagar PeetersTranslated by Vivien D. Glass September 2018. Hardcover and Paperback. Ebook also available.$28.95 | 9780999754405 (hc)$18.95 | 9780999754429 (pb) WINNER OF THE FINTRO PRIZE FOR LITERATURE “Cleverly unravels the myth surrounding Neruda without knocking him off his pedestal, written in sparkling language.” – JAN Malva, a precocious eight-year-old ghost, is running amok in the afterlife with a cadre of other lost children including Daniel Miller, Eduard Einstein, and Lucia, the schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce. She searches for her father, the famous poet Pablo Neruda, and wants him to know the details of her small, but not insignificant life. Why did he abandon her, and her mother Maria? And what became of him? Who was he before he had a child? And what did she, his only child, mean to him? From her omniscient perspective, the once disabled and mute Malva now travels through the world and through time, seeing her father as a young boy, later as he courted her mother