It is possible that compulsive readers - or at least those who previously ate large amounts of printed until the weight of responsibility away from us wantonly reading - have a special predilection on the reading stories about the rest. Also likely to try to feel a major player identified by the search for a mirror in black on white that is never perfect. And even this desire can become a reality within the story of Firmin by Sam Savage portrays us the short but intense life of a letter that the force becomes more human than the other characters that parade before we.

In any case, we should note before proceeding that Firmin beyond literature, is also a book that marks a milestone in the Spanish publishing industry, since it is the first work written in foreign language for which a publisher has bought the rights global translation. The result for publisher Seix Barral has been sold in 14 countries in 13 different languages, deriving a new strategy in a world of books and publishers are beginning to adopt a forced march.

But back to our rats, born in Boston, within the Shine Bookstore, located near Scollay Square doomed, alas, by the urban pressure and in a neighborhood that is deteriorating every day a little more, as subject to express abandonment of council are looking at its best return on the space that will free the death of this microclimate that all houses are degraded Firmin comes into the world as the youngest of thirteen children, while her mother was drunk for a place to give birth. The struggle for survival and hunger will make the small Firmin pierce books start looking for something to put in their mouth until at last start reading what they have digested getting to a point of respect for the printed works and regretting they had tried them without having really enjoyed.

In the animal world, Firmin about being accepted by those who are unaware of its existence and intelligence, human beings, which he considers as being closer thanks to his erudition. Of course, humans always see it as what it is, a rat and they will never understand how much you appreciate and seek their understanding and affection, without actually achieve it at any time.

Of course the background of the novel is an excuse for pasearnos by world literature, to approach the beauty of the human being through it, and the pursuit of a goal of life, coming to discover that deep down we all face to it in the same manner and with the same landscape we are animals we are.