El áloe | Katherine Mansfield | book new | sale

Katherine Mansfield

Barataria : Bárbaros | 2012

110 | 2h 35m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

19cm x 12cm | 135gr

I had never seen anything like this before. He stood up straight and stared. And then he saw his mother coming down the road with a red carnation in her hand. Mother, what is it? Kezia asked. Linda looked up at the fat swelling of that plant with cruel leaves and a fleshy, imposing stem. It far surpassed it with its calm aerial appearance, and yet it clung so tightly to the earth that it might have had claws instead of roots. The curved leaves seemed to hide something and the large stem blindly cut through the air as if there were no wind that could knock it down. "That's an aloe, Kezia," said Linda. "Does it ever have flowers?" "Yes, my daughter," said her friend. mother, and smiled at Kezia with half-closed eyes, once every hundred years.