by Sam Savage · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466408967
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«Firmin» is the novel by Sam Savage, published by Columna CAT in paperback (208 pages, in Catalan).
Firmin is born in a Boston bookstore in the sixties and learns to read by devouring pages. He discovers that a cultured rat is a lonely rat; shunned by his family, he seeks friendship with the bookseller and with a failed science fiction writer. It is a fable of black humor and melancholy about the love of literature and the search for understanding.
It belongs to the Clàssica collection from Columna CAT, with a translation by Mercè Ubach Dorca and a publication date of 2008.
Aimed at readers passionate about books, for whom literature is as real as life, and who appreciate black humor and melancholy.
Samuel Phillips Savage was an American novelist and poet, best known for his 2006 novel Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife. Other published works are The Cry of the Sloth, The Criminal Life of Effie O, and Glass.
