by Maria Barbal · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426449207
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«Canto rodado» is the novel by Maria Barbal, published by Lumen in 1994 in hardcover (118 pages, in Spanish).
Conxa is thirteen when her parents, poor peasants from the Catalan Pyrenees, take her to live with a childless aunt. Between work and lack of affection, the young woman grows up, marries Jaume and achieves modest happiness. War erupts in the region and sweeps her life along like a rolling stone, in a portrait of rural twentieth-century Spain.
This edition is the Spanish version of «Pedra de tartera» (1985), translated by Ana María Moix, and opens the «Cicle del Pallars» series.
A short novel with a rural and historical setting, for readers wanting to approach a contemporary classic of Catalan literature about the Civil War.
Maria Barbal i Farré is a Spanish writer. She spent her childhood in rural Catalonia, which profoundly influenced her literary work. In 1964, at the age of 14, she moved to Barcelona to pursue her education, eventually earning a degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Barcelona in 1971.
