Neruda mail carrier

Author's name: Antonio Scarmitad Publisher: Mamdouh Adwan for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2018 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Mario Gimenez, a young hunter, decides to abandon his profession to become a mailman in Islanigra, where the only person who receives and sends messages is the poet Pablo Neruda. The young Gimenez admires Neruda and eagerly awaits the poet to dedicate a book to him, or for something to happen between them more than just exchanging words. His wish is eventually fulfilled, and a very special relationship develops between them, but the tense circumstances Chile was experiencing at that time hasten their separation in a tragic way. Through a very authentic story, Antonio Scarmitad manages to portray an intense image of the influential seventies in Chile, and at the same time, he poetically narrates the life of Pablo Neruda. In 1994, this novel was adapted into a film by director Michel Radford, starring Philippe Noiret and Massimo Troisi, who died one day after filming ended. The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995.