Publisher's Synopsis
The fascinating story of the Argentinean literary master Julio Cortázar is full of the colors of poetry and strewn with the shapes of dreams. There was a bear who lived in the pipes of a human house, and he would run around in the pipes and scrub them clean. It also washes its face in the cistern and has a great time doing so. It also enjoyed watching people and teasing them from time to time, sticking its feet out of the sink opening to startle them, or blowing into the vents to make them think they were poorly ventilated. It noticed that people were clumsy and huge, and some of them looked lonely and miserable when they went to bed at night. So the piping bear would gently touch people's cheeks in the early morning before they woke up and left.
