Books by Irene Solà (3)
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Nach dem dreijährigen Studium in England kehrt Ada in das Bauerndorf ihrer Kindheit zurück. Ihre ältere Schwester Nàdia ist verheiratet und hat ein Kind, der Bruder Quim hat gerade sein Coming-out hinter sich, und die Eltern haben sich getrennt. Nur Adas Pläne bleiben unentschlossen. Aber eines weiß sie: Sie will endlich schreiben.
Sie erfindet Geschichten und schreibt von wildgewordenen Kühen, Zombies und unerwarteten Zärtlichkeiten, von der Anmut tanzender Bauern und dem sommerlichen Sirren der Natur. Aber was wird aus dem Wiedersehen mit Vicen&c... continue
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà EN
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Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.
As day turns to night, four hundred years’ worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasu... continue
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà EN
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Sol?'s vivid and magical tale, winner of the European Union Prize, brings to life a small Pyrenees village. The story begins when a farmer is killed by a lightning strike during a storm, leaving his wife, Si?, a widowed mother to a daughter, Mia, and a two-month-old son, Hilari. When Mia grows up, she falls in love with Jaume, the son of "Giants," who are stigmatized for their size as well as lack of education and rough manner. After Jaume accidentally kills Hilari in a hunting accident, he's jailed while he awaits his trial for murder, and Mia is left alone to live her life in the mountains w... continue