La vida en Saint Petersburg, un pueblecito situado a orillas del Misisipi, al suroeste de Estados Unidos, es tan plácida que incluso puede resultar aburrida. Pero Tom Sawyer, un muchacho curioso y travieso, es capaz de sacar provecho a cualquier hecho cotidiano, como pintar una valla, o no tan cotidiano, como perseguir a un malvado asesino o ir en busca de un tesoro escondido en una cueva, acompañado de su inseparable amigo Huck.
Mark Twain was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer, and novelist of numerous classics, including
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Celia Filipetto has translated more than 150 books from English, Italian, and Catalan, including the works of authors such as Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, and James Thurber. She is a former professor of a postgraduate course on literary translation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona as well as a former professor in the masters program of literary translation at the University of Malaga.