by Glòria De Castro Pascual · Periscopi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791387726096
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«Els temples solemnes» is the contemporary novel by Glòria de Castro Pascual, published by Periscopi in paperback (280 pages, in Catalan).
Nina flees home seeking freedom and reappears before the ruined facade with her husband and teenage son. While they rebuild the ruin, she decides not to go back inside: an act of resistance as the war comes to an end. The work portrays a woman suffocated by the everyday who longs for a shotgun and a bottle of liquor to hunt monsters.
Volume 24 of the Escafandre collection. Glòria de Castro Pascual won the 2022 Premi Llibreter with her first novel, L'instant abans de l'impacte.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Catalan, interested in rural settings and female protagonists.
