Oscar u s-sinjura r-roża / Oscar et la dame rose

Oscar u s-Sinjura r-Roża / Oscar et la dame rose ta’ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt u maqlub għall-Malti minn Claudine Borg hu l-għaxar ktieb fis-Sensiela Traduzzjoni Faraxa.

Din l-istorja tirrakkonta l-mewt ta’ tifel ta’ għaxar snin marid b’marda terminali. Storja ta’ qsim il-qalb u tama fl-istess ħin għax għalkemm tittratta telfa tagħti wkoll lok għal tbissim, umoriżmu u apprezzament għal-ħajja.

Fiha nsibu tlettax-il ittra miktubin miċ-ċkejken Oscar u indirizzati lil Alla, misjubin wara mewtu mis-sinjura r-roża, figura enigmatika u kruċjali fil-ħajja at-tifel.

‘Allura, Oscar, ma’ Peggy, serja l-affari?’

‘U kif serja, Nanna-Roża. Jiena kuntent immens. Iżżewwiġna dal-lejl.’

‘Iżżewwiġtu?’

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Oscar u s-Sinjura r-Roża / Oscar et la dame rose by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, translated into the Maltese language by Claudine Borg is part of the FARAXA Translation Series.

This book is about an uplifting tale of a boy coming to terms with death. ‘My name is Oscar and I’m ten years old… They call me Egghead and I look about seven. I live in hospital because of my cancer and I’ve never written to you because I don’t even know if you exist,’ writes Oscar in a letter to God. Oscar is ill and no one, especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows: that he is dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the ‘ladies in pink’ who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with him. She suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the following twelve days is a decade of his imagined future. One day equals ten years, and every night Oscar writes a letter to God telling him about his life. The ten letters that follow are sensitive, funny, heartbreaking and ultimately, uplifting. Oscar u s-Sinjura r-Roża is a small fable with a big heart; it will change the way you feel about death and life.