Joana E.

Synopsis of Joana E.

«Joana E.» is the novel by María Antònia Oliver Cabrer, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover (224 pages, in Catalan).

Barcelona, 1979: the author meets Joana, a 69-year-old woman, and decides to turn her story into a novel. The result is a melodrama narrated in the first person by Joana, in her own language and with her silences. Her doubts, contradictions, fears and indignations appear, along with a mix of naivety, wisdom, rationality and passion.

This edition was published on May 20, 1998 in the Butxaca collection.

For readers of literary fiction in Catalan interested in female portraits and first-person narration.