by Jesús Moncada · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433946805
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Camino de sirga is the first novel by writer Jesús Moncada, published in 1988. The work is considered one of the peaks of 20th century Catalan literature. In it, Moncada evokes the disappearance of Mequinensa, a town that was the center of an important mining basin and intense river traffic, and which is condemned to be submerged under the waters of a swamp. Through the experiences of countless characters, the author recalls the last century of life of the town's population, in a masterful narrative fresco where reality and myth, irony and tenderness, nostalgia and literary impetus converge.
Jesús Moncada i Estruga was a narrator and translator. His work is a re-creation, somewhere between realism and fantasy, of the mythical past of the old town of Mequinenza -now submerged beneath the waters of the river Ebro-.
