by Maria Barbal · Labutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499300115
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«Pedra de tartera» is the novel by Maria Barbal, published by Labutxaca in paperback (160 pages, in Catalan).
Conxa compares herself to a stone in a scree when her husband is imprisoned at the end of the Spanish Civil War. As a teenager she left her village in Pallars to help her aunt and met Jaume, a bricklayer and carpenter, whom she married. The novel narrates her life between family, work and History, and her learning of the silent resistance of minerals.
This novel, first installment of the Cicle del Pallars, won the Premi Joaquim Ruyra (1984) and the Premi Joan Crexells (1985).
May appeal to readers of contemporary Catalan fiction and rural stories with a historical backdrop.
Maria Barbal i Farré is a Spanish writer. She spent her childhood in rural Catalonia, which profoundly influenced her literary work. In 1964, at the age of 14, she moved to Barcelona to pursue her education, eventually earning a degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Barcelona in 1971.
