A life-changing novel loved and recommended by Spain, an Amazon bestseller upon publication.
The best moments of your life unfold at the Grand Hotel, your final destination.

The novel "Blue World" is the story of a boy who has only three days left to live.
It is also the story of children who, like the boy, are on the verge of death but have no one by their side.
They realize the true meaning of life that they had never known before at the 'Grand Hotel', an idyllic place where they can spend the last days of their lives, albeit for a short time.

Author Albert Espinosa is a representative Spanish author who has published best-selling novels. He was diagnosed with cancer at the age of fourteen and spent ten years undergoing surgery and treatment at various hospitals.
As a result, he lost one leg, a lung, and part of his liver.
It was not until I was twenty-four that I left the hospital and began writing in earnest.
He says he is living not only his own life, which was a life that was on the brink of life and death in his youth, but also the lives of his friends who passed away without being able to overcome cancer.
His worldview is well reflected throughout his works, and in 『Blue World』, his worldview is well depicted with rich imagination, humor, and wit.


Spanish translator Seonhee Byun, who was captivated by this book, also praised it in her “Translator’s Note”, saying, “‘The Blue World’ is a mysterious metaphor and beautiful poem about life, death, and birth.”
“How could death intertwined with life, and life intertwined with death, be depicted so wonderfully?
I feel like this is a world that only someone who has gone through life and death with the body and soul of a child can see.
“The ‘Blue World’ is a world that we create in the way we truly want, without any order, rules, or compulsion.”

“Nature speaks to us, but we are too busy to understand what it means.”
One night my father whispered in my ear:
--- p.9

I believe that problems do not exist, but rather arise when we think of them as problems.
A problem is simply the difference between what you expect from people or life and what you actually get from it.
--- p.15

Now I understand him.
I have never loved life so much as I do now, when I too am losing it.
I don't know why.
The world has taken so much from me, and I still don't understand why I struggle to stay here.

But my journey towards my end, or rather, my beginning, has finally begun.

Now I will journey towards my death.
--- p.27

I'm supposed to be an adult in the future, but I probably will never be an adult.
But I don't think adults can keep the childhood they once were.
--- p.85

“The world is the biggest playground in existence.
If you think of it as one classroom, you're convinced.
You just have to play.
So I create a game of death.” --- p.88

What do I want to do with the time I have left? The boy said the important thing was to find something I always wanted to do but was afraid to do…
--- p.95

I remembered something my father, a writer, sometimes said.
He said that the best scenes and moments in life remain forever on the inner retina of the soul.
--- p.117

“People lose a lot because they think something doesn’t suit them.
But if you play until you reach your limit without thinking about your role, everything gets better.
This world has set limits and wants you to follow them.” --- p.122

I was dying, but I realized.
It's only after you force yourself to do something you don't want to do or become someone you don't want to be that you truly realize who you are and what you want from this world.
--- p.146

It's not that we ignore the prohibitions, it's that we don't attach value to them.

It's not about suffering, it's about understanding suffering.

Just living.

--- p.148