Ο μικρός πρίγκιπας
A pilot stranded in the desert meets a child whose questions make ordinary measures of importance look newly strange.
Feels like wonder, tenderness and longing. About friendship, identity and love.
A page from the book
A voice from nowhere asks for something utterly ordinary.
Την πρώτη νύχτα λοιπόν κοιμήθηκα πάνω στην άμμο, χίλια μίλια μακριά από κάθε κατοικημένη περιοχή. Ήμουν πολύ πιο απομονωμένος από έναν ναυαγό στη σχεδία του στη μέση του ωκεανού. Φαντάζεστε λοιπόν την έκπληξή μου όταν μια παράξενη φωνούλα με ξύπνησε τα χαράματα. Έλεγε:«Σας παρακαλώ... ζωγράφισέ μου ένα αρνί!»«Τι;»«Ζωγράφισέ μου ένα αρνί...» Αντουάν ντε Σαιντ-Εξυπερύ.Saint-Exupéry was both a pioneering aviator and a writer; he disappeared during a reconnaissance flight in 1944, a year after the book appeared.
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- Feels like wonder, tenderness and longing. About friendship, identity and love.
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