by Norman Lewis · Insel, Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458343240
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«Die Stimmen des alten Meeres» is the novel by Norman Lewis published by Insel, Frankfurt in paperback (320 pages, in German).
A narrative in which Norman Lewis recalls the three summers he spent in a fishing village on the Costa Brava in the late 1940s. It portrays the hard life of the fishermen of Farol and the peasants of Sort, their old customs and feuds, and the rise of tourism that, under Franco, transformed that coast forever.
The 2000 edition of «Die Stimmen des alten Meeres» includes a foreword by Cees Nooteboom, the translation from English by Dieter Hildebrandt, and is part of Insel-Taschenbuch (no. 2624).
For readers of chronicles and travel literature interested in rural Spain and the transformation of the Mediterranean coastline by tourism.
John Frederick Norman Lewis was a British writer. While he is best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography.
