El lugar más bonito del mundo

a partir de los 8 años hasta los 12

Novela internacionalmente aclamada sobre un niño pobre, lustrador de botas de Guatemala. Busque su descripción en español a amazon.com.

This is the Spanish edition of my novel, The Most Beautiful Place in the World. It's the story of Juan, a young Guatemalan boy who is abandoned first by his father, then by his mother, but who finds love and happiness in spite of all his losses, and learns what it might really mean to live in "the most beautiful place in the world."

I wrote this book in the late 1980's, when I'd lived in Guatemala four years. I wrote it in only three weeks, while stories told me by children who were my neighbors were still fresh in my ears. Their emotions and their lives are in it.

American children who read it come to understand both the poverty and the pride of a foreign land. Many of them in not-so-happy families will recognize their own inner selves in Juan--and see their own courage in him, too.

"Interesante narración, de lenguaje sencillo y fácil lectura, en la que destacan los valores humanos por encima de la pobreza y de las vicissitudes."--La Vangardia, Barcelona

"Juan vive en las montañas de Guatemala, pero la historia podria estar ambientada entre los pobres de cualquier lugar del mundo."--El Correro Gallego, Santiago, España

"Lectura recomendada..."--Heraldo de Aragón, Zaragoza, España

"...un libro infantil recomendado para todo aquel que tenga más de ocho años de edad."--El Periódico, Guatemala

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