Witty, clever, and touching, Malva, the daughter of Pablo Neruda, recounts the time and life of her famous father. Hagar Peeters' narrator allows herself a lot of freedom. But she can, after all, observe the events from the afterlife and already knows the ending of every story. Yet, she tells the story of her famous father Pablo Neruda in a completely new way: the marriage of his parents, the separation from his first wife and daughter Malva, and his fame as a poet in Latin America and the world take on a new light when his daughter speaks. In real life, Malva Marina Trinidad del Carmen Reyes lived only eight years, as she was born with hydrocephalus and was health-impaired until her early death. Soon after her birth, her father Neruda withdrew from all responsibilities, unwilling to burden himself with her illness. In a surrealistic.