Neruda fuels Mario's interest in poetry by teaching him the value of a metaphor, and the young postman begins practicing this technique. Mario worships Neruda as a hero and buys a volume of his poetry, timidly waiting for the moment to have it autographed.Īfter some time, Mario garners enough courage to strike up a conversation with Neruda, who is waiting for word about his candidacy for the Nobel Prize for literature, and despite an awkward beginning, the two become good friends. Despite the entire village being illiterate, he does have one local to deliver to-the poet, Pablo Neruda, who is living in exile.
Mario Jiménez, a timid teenager, rejects the profession of his father, a fisherman, and instead takes a job as the local postman. The story opens in June, 1969 in the little village of Isla Negra, off the coast of Chile.
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