Rudyard. The Child with Glasses

Cinzia Ghigliano

Imagined and desired – before he was even born – on the shores of lake Rudyard in England by two parents in love; born in India and surrounded by the attention and affection of his father and mother between the wild colours of banana trees, tigers and antelopes – that India where he learned not to be afraid of animals; then growing up in the grey of England, far away from his parents – where he met the magical and liberating power of books, unique – and strictly forbidden – refuges from the vexations of the governess to whom he has been entrusted; going almost blind by dint of reading in secret in the dark of a closet…

His name? Rudyard – as the lake – Kipling!

The adventurous and melancholy childhood of the Nobel Prize for Literature told by the touching drawings of Cinzia Ghigliano, who retraces and describes atmospheres and emotions that have marked the life of the author as well as his work.

Books by Cinzia Ghigliano