Glowrushes (Lo stralisco) is the masterpiece of Italy's foremost living author of children's stories, Roberto Piumini, who received a Rodari Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 and is currently a nominee, for the third time, for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

This classic of Italian children's literature tells the heartbreakingly beautiful story of a Turkish artist who paints colorful landscapes for a boy confined by sickness to his windowless bedchambers.

Written in 1987, the story was published in its very first English translation by Pushkin Children's Books in December 2022. It will be published in the US and Canada by New York Review Books in October 2023.

Glowrushes was chosen by The Times as a Children's Book of the Week and by World Kid Lit as one of the best international children's books of the year. Author Michael Morpurgo, President of BookTrust, named it his favorite children’s book of 2022.

REVIEWS

Kirkus Reviews (starred): "Utterly spellbinding ... An elegy, timeless and entrancing."

Philip Pullman: "I don't think I have read anything like this before -- a tale of life, death, love and beauty that by the storyteller's art makes those things true, fresh, real and important. I hope this unforgettable story finds all the readers it deserves."

Michael Morpurgo: “You see it, feel it, live it as you read. Lyrical, magical, tender and true, and deeply mysterious.”

Emily Drabble of BookTrust: “I cry, honestly, if I even think of this book. It’s truly a masterpiece and everyone has to read it. I’m just utterly gripped by the sparkling perfection of it.”

World Kid Lit: “This modern Italian classic, written as a traditional fable in poetic prose, will transport readers, young and old alike, into an enchanting, magical bygone realm.”

The Guardian: “Elegant, moving … filled with understatedly exquisite, transporting prose.”

The Times: “Beautiful … a touching, otherworldly, out-of-time novella about friendship, imagination and the power of art.”