by Sam Savage · Actes Sud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742783489
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«Firmin: autobiographie d'un grignoteur de livres» is the novel by Sam Savage, published by Actes Sud in 2009 in paperback (201 pages, in French).
In Boston in the 1960s, Firmin, a rat born in the basement of a decaying bookstore, learns to read after devouring the books in his nest. His passion for literature makes him a solitary being. The neighbourhood's redevelopment threatens his world, and friendship with a marginal novelist rescues him from disillusionment.
The work was originally published in 2006 and was nominated for the Society of Midland Authors Award in 2007.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy stories about books and animal protagonists.
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.
