It is a touching story written by David Soares.
It is an unusual book for several reasons. The first of which is the choice of the protagonist that it is a rat, which is different from all the mice in the kingdom. Then it is a novel where the characters, who are almost all animals, debate on the issues of life and death, love and hate and fear and courage. David Soares has a delightful writing, full of words that must be said in loud and clear, because they have a beautiful sound that makes them almost magical, e.g. assarapantado, desvairamento, patranhar, mentireiro, flagício, fedegoso fedúncio and more I could describe, but I prefer you taste them during the rest of your reading and more you can discover its hidden meanings. The names that the writer chose for their characters are even more unique ... verrículo, verruco, calcaterra, jigajoga, fraca- chicha and these are just a few gems that also cannot avoid to share and I also decided not to translate it to English because they lose their marvelous sonority, so try to read them in Portuguese for the laugh of it. It is a deep dark history, which still has the ability to be surprising by the fact that a rat decides to start a journey that will take him to a monastery, where he will meet a blind master, who stubbornly overnight without food or drink for three nights under a dome to prove that it does not fall and the chance encounter between these two creatures of God will arise an unexpected epilogue. "Battle " is above all a manual about tolerance and friendship. I highly recommend it . Good reading.
