Maria Barbal

Stone in a Landslide (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa leaves her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hardship she finds love with Jaume - a love that will be thwarted by the Spanish Civil War. Approaching her own death, Conxa looks back on a life in which she has lost everything except her own indomitable spirit.

"There is an understated power in Barbal’s depiction of how the forces of history can shape the life of the powerless." Financial Times

"So vibrant, that it makes me want to take scissors to everything else I read." The Guardian

The Catalan modern classic, first published in 1985, now in its 50th edition, with over 50 000 copies sold in the last two years in Germany alone, is published for the first time in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peirene Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908670007
• Artikelnr.: 38365422

Autorenporträt

Maria Barbal was born in 1949 in Tremp (Pyrenees) and studied Philology in Barcelona where she still lives today. Since publishing Pedra de Tartera in 1985 she has established herself as the most influential and successful Catalan contemporary author, winning numerous awards including the national literature prize of Spain, the Serra d'Or and the renowned Prudenci-Bertrana prize.