by Miquel Llor Forcada · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484379652
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«Laura a la ciutat dels sants» is the classic novel by Miquel Llor Forcada, published by Proa in paperback (336 pages, in Catalan).
Laura, an attractive and inexperienced young woman from Barcelona, seeks fulfillment through marriage to a wealthy heir in Comarquinal. She soon discovers the hypocrisy of a pious and self-righteous society, driven by economic interests and hidden behind appearances. The work, considered the Catalan Madame Bovary, is a classic of twentieth-century narrative.
Edition edited by Lluïsa Julià in the Les Eines collection. «Laura a la ciutat dels sants» won the Premi Crexells in 1930; Miquel Llor published «El somriure dels sants» (1947) as a sequel.
For readers of twentieth-century Catalan narrative classics and novels that portray social hypocrisy.
