The Boy in the Mirror - by Fernando Sabino

Brazilian literature gains a new character. Tom Sawyer, Mogli, Elk, Gulliver, Pinocchio and the Little Prince have a companion among us: the boy Fernando, who becomes the author himself, living out all his childhood fantasies in wild adventures. Teach a chicken to talk, learn to fly with birds, become invisible, meet Tarzã and Mandraze, visit the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. And, in the boy who sees himself in the mirror, he discovers the best of himself, the projection of the ideal of purity that only a child can achieve, symbolized, in a luminous way, in the release of the birds. A magical world of surprise and wonder, unveiled by a Fernando Sabino with mastery, a novel to be read, with equal enchantment, by children and adults.