by Sam Savage · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788492549917
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«Firmin» is the novel by Sam Savage, published by labutxaca in paperback (208 pages, in Catalan).
Firmin, a rat born in a Boston bookshop in the 1960s, learns to read by devouring the pages of the shop's books. Her condition as a cultured rat marginalises her from other rats and brings her closer to the bookseller and a failed science fiction writer, with whom she strikes up friendships. With black humour and allegories, the novel portrays loneliness and the redemptive power of literature as Firmin roams a decaying city in search of affection and understanding.
Translation by Mercè Ubach Dorca; edition published in 2009 within the Labutxaca collection. The original work dates from 2006.
Suitable reading for those seeking a story about books, with an animal protagonist, black humour and a look at loneliness.
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.
