by Roddy Doyle · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429743258
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«La dona que ensopegava amb les portes» is the literary fiction novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (272 pages, in Catalan).
Paula Spencer, a thirty-nine-year-old cleaner and mother of four —one of them a drug addict—, drags through a life marked by alcoholism and the abuse of a husband she managed to throw out of the house. When the police tell her that her husband has died, Paula is pushed to reconstruct her past and confront it.
Original title: The Woman Who Walked into Doors. First installment of the Paula Spencer series. Catalan translation by Ernest Riera Arbussa. Published in 1997.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Irish literature; a common choice for reading groups.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
