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The Flowering Tree

© Marjorie Agosín, 2018

© of this edition: Ediciones Mis Raíces, 2018

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Text: Marjorie Agosín

General Editor: Francisca Jiménez

Illustrations: © Francisca Yáñez

Production and edition: Yasna Cabrera and Nicole Yuretic

Design and Layout: Francisca Yáñez

Main translator: Alison Ridley

Aditional texts translator and text reviewer: Javiera Puentes

Assistant text reviewer: Graciela Gamboa

Assistant designer: Oscar Braz Hernández

First Edition, August 2018

Reg. N: 287748

ISBN printed edition: 978-956-9002-26-7

ISBN digital edition: 978-956-9002-42-7

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My grandfather Abraham had green eyes... like a forest... like a cat’s eyes that, in the darkness, illuminate the forgotten faces of the night... like the eyes of the owls that came to our balcony when all our doors were open and perched there as though waiting for us. We were always so happy when we arrived in the city of Quillota on Sundays to visit my grandfather. During those visits I would ask him many things, and so that I wouldn’t forget his answers, I wrote them down in a notebook that I took with me. The owls would always perch nearby and listen to the story I’m about to tell.