Miquel de Palol: El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights)
The latest addition to my website is Miquel de Palol's El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights). This is the first novel by the major Catalan writer…
Almudena Sánchez : Fármaco (Pharmakon)
The latest addition to my website is Almudena Sánchez' s Fármaco (Pharmakon). This is about Almudena Sánchez's struggle with depression, which hit her in her early thirties. Unlike other novels/memoirs…
Eva Baltasar: Boulder (Boulder)
The latest addition to my website is Eva Baltasar's Boulder (Boulder). Our narrator works as a mess-hall cook in various places in Chile, getting a job on a freighter early…
Jordi Cussà: Cavalls salvatges (Wild Horses)
The latest addition to my website is Jordi Cussà's Cavalls salvatges (Wild Horses). The story shows that in many small towns in Catalonia in the 1980s, most young people were…
Montserrat Roig: Ramona, adéu! (Goodbye, Ramona)
The latest addition to my website is Montserrat Roig's Ramona, adéu! (Goodbye, Ramona). The novel tells the story of three women, all called Ramona, from three successive generations. Ramona 1…
Joaquim Ruyra: Jacobé & Fineta
The latest addition to my website is Joaquim Ruyra's Jacobé & Fineta This collection consists of two short stories but very well worth reading . Jacobé tells of a girl…
Rosa Maria Arquimbau: Quaranta anys perduts (Forty Lost Years)
The latest addition to my website is Rosa Maria Arquimbau's Quaranta anys perduts (Forty Lost Years). The novel tells the story of Laura Vidal, a Barcelona woman, from Francesc Macià…
Llorenç Villalonga: Mort de dama [Death of a Lady]
The latest addition to my website is Llorenç Villalonga's Mort de dama [Death of a Lady]. This was Villalonga's first book and was a wicked satire on the Mallorcan upper…
Raül Garrigasait: Els estranys (The Others)
The latest addition to my website is Raül Garrigasait's Els estranys (The Others). The narrator is to translate the memoirs of Felix Lichnowsky, a Prussian army officer who fought in…
Llorenç Villalonga: Andrea Víctrix (Andrea Víctrix)
The latest addition to my website is Llorenç Villalonga's Andrea Víctrix (Andrea Víctrix). This is a dystopian novel set in Palma de Mallorca but now called Turclub. Our unnamed narrator…