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When I Sing, Mountains Dance

When I Sing, Mountains Dance
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish...

Winds of the Night

Winds of the Night
  • Author(s): Joan Sales
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales’ acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells, a...

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