Description: Charged with sensuality and passion, Nerudas love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winners oeuvre. This wonderful book collects Nerudas most passionate verses.
Brief description: Pablo Neruda was born in 1904 in the town of Parral in Chile. He received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years later he died of leukemia in Santiago, Chile.
Review Quotes: The greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language.--Gabriel García Márquez