by William Golding · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429742060
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«La llengua doble» is the historical novel by William Golding, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (192 pages, in Catalan).
Set in the 1st century BC, it tells the life of Arieka, a young woman chosen as Pythia at the oracle of Delphi. In her old age she recalls her affectionless childhood, her selection by the high priest Ionides, and her sixty years of prophetic service, while the sanctuary loses influence before the advance of Rome.
Catalan translation by Xavier Riu of the English original The Double Tongue. Number 294 in the El Balancí collection. William Golding won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
For readers of historical fiction and classical mythology, and for those wishing to approach William Golding's last novel.
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
