Malaherba

"The first time Dad died we all thought he was pretending." Thus begins Malaherba, the new novel by Manuel Jabois. One day Mr. Tamburino, Tambu, a ten year old boy, meets his father lying in the room and meets Elvis, a new classmate of his class. He will discover love and death for the first time, but not in the way he believes. And the two, Tambu and Elvis, will live together the last days of childhood, those in which things that cannot be explained and feelings that still cannot be named still happen. This is a story of two children who live a strange and lonely love story. A book about the terrible things that are done with affection, written with humor and a quick prose that advances taking Tambu and his sister Rebe, Claudia and his brother Elvis, to the frontier of a new world.