Welcome to
Shelf Candy Saturday!!
This weekly meme/blog hop, hosted here,
features beautiful book covers!
If you'd like to participate, just grab my button (or create your own), write your own post, and link up in the Linky widget at the bottom of this post. (You have to click on "Read more" so that the entire post will open up.)
As a bonus, you can include information on the artist, designer, and/or photographer, but it's not required. You can simply feature a cover and explain why you love it!
Here's my choice for this week!
(translated from Galician to Spanish
by Dolores Vilavedra)
Trade Paperback, 610 pages
Alfaguara
November 1, 2006
Bibliophilia, Literary Fiction
Why do I love this cover?
This image has a surreal quality about it, even though, for the most part, it looks very ordinary...until one glances down at the lower right-hand corner, and then realizes, with a little shock, that a painted fire is licking away at it...
When I first saw this cover, the Surrealist painter Rene Magritte immediately came to mind. He painted pictures full of very ordinary objects, but placed in completely illogical compositions, or placed together with other objects that would normally not be found near them. Yet, his paintings were very realistic.
