by Josep Pla · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423311095
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«El carrer estret» is a costumbrista novel by Josep Pla, published by Destino in paperback (250 pages, in Catalan).
The action takes place in Torrelles, a small imaginary town in contemporary Catalonia. A newly arrived veterinarian and the cook Francisqueta observe the daily life of the town; through them, the novel portrays the solitude and routine of anonymous characters in a register between costumbrismo and neorealism.
The work was originally published in 1951 and won the first Joanot Martorell Prize for fiction. This edition is from 1981.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Catalan narrative, as well as for those who want to approach the work of Josep Pla.
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan and Spanish.
