從小,內夫塔利就聽見某種聲音在呼喚。他在森林中、海浪裡、雨聲下尋找答案,儘管父親冷酷、外人譏笑,他仍堅持傾聽內心。融合詩意、傳記與魔幻寫實,本書細寫智利詩人聶魯達的童年,榮獲Pura Belpré文學獎、Boston Globe–Horn Book榮譽獎等多項肯定,是一部觸動心靈的閱讀旅程。Pura Belpré Award winnerBoston Globe-Horn Book HonorBooklist Editors' ChoiceNYPL 100 Best Children's BookALA Notable Children's BookIRA Notable Children's Books for a Global SocietyKirkus Best Children's BookPen Center USA Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureWinner of the 2011 Pure Belpre Award for fiction now in an elegant paperback edition!From the time he is a young boy, Neftali hears the call of a mysterious voice. He knows he must follow it--even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself. It leads him under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, until finally, he discovers its source.Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial,