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A review by bkmuse7
The House of Lost and Found by Martin Widmark
5.0
Amazing!!! Powerful yet simple story, beautifully & carefully told, and fantastically illustrated. A tour de force.
Niles is old, lives alone, with withering plants, but it's so gloomy even the cat leaves. His children have grown and left, and his wife Sara has died (though we get a glimpse of her studio and paintings).
Then late one night the doorbell rings, and the neighbor boy asks him to watch his plant as he is going on vacation. Though it is just a pot, not a plant. But he waters it anyway, grumpily . . . and the magic begins.
Translated from the Swedish by Polly Lawson. First published in Sweden by Bonnier Carlsen in 2017.
Illustrations by Emilia Dziubak (Poland) are hand drawn using coloured pencils
Niles is old, lives alone, with withering plants, but it's so gloomy even the cat leaves. His children have grown and left, and his wife Sara has died (though we get a glimpse of her studio and paintings).
Then late one night the doorbell rings, and the neighbor boy asks him to watch his plant as he is going on vacation. Though it is just a pot, not a plant. But he waters it anyway, grumpily . . . and the magic begins.
Translated from the Swedish by Polly Lawson. First published in Sweden by Bonnier Carlsen in 2017.
Illustrations by Emilia Dziubak (Poland) are hand drawn using coloured pencils