Resumo de Story About A Small Gull And The Cat Taught Her To Fly

After befell in a spot of oil in the waters of the Black sea, the small gull Kengah knocks down on the balcony of the cat Zorba almost dead, whom she tears three solemn promises: not to eat the egg that she is going to lay, to take care and to teach to fly to the small that will be born. Therefore to the death of Kengah, Zorba sit on egg and when it hatches, he welcome the baby gull in the funny and brought together feline community of the port of Hamburg. But how can a cat teach to fly? In order to maintain the third promise, Zorba will have to resort to the aid of all, also to that one of a man. In a story that has the grace of a fairy tale and a strength of a parable, the great Chilean writer touches his more beloved topics : the love for the nature, the disinterested generosity and the solidarity, also between ?various?.

A gull named Kengah, while she was diving in waters of the North Sea looking for food, comes hit from the ?curse of the seas?, a wave loaded with oil. Collections her last forces, succeed to catch up the city of Hamburg and knocks down on the balcony of one house. She has no more escape. Here lives Zorba, a large cat from the black shining mantle. Dying, the poor Kengah succeeds to entrust her first and last egg to the astonished Zorba, after to have demanded to maintain three promises: in the first place to sit the egg, therefore to take care of the chick that would be been born and in end teach him flying. Zorba promises to take cure of the small that is going to be born. And so he not only sit the egg, but with the aid of its friends cats, Colonel, Diderot and Secretary, he raises with much love the small, indeed the small gull and the protect her from the dangers. The problem is born when Zorba must teach to fly to Lucky (that?s comes called the small gull). After many useless tried the cats are forced to resort to the aid of the man and to break off the Taboo: to speak to the humans in their language. The chosen man is a poet, a man from the sensitive nature, able mind to understand and to comprise. And so Lucky will succeed to detach her first flight and to balance in the sky: her world. We get used to an indignant , hurt and tattered Luis Sepulveda in denouncing a knelt down South America to the rules of the horror, we find ourselves amazed to believe that this best-seller translated in eight languages is really fruit of the great Chilean writer. Exceeded the begins unbelief, this small fairy tale of good intentions and delicate grammar appears us truly it wants to be, a metaphor about the human condition and the original sin, the diffidence in communicating with the stranger who drive to erect walls that become more and more difficult to pull down with passing of the time.
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb
--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb--translated from Italian by Luke Crumb

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