by Maria Àngels Anglada · L'AVENÇ, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416853076
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«Sandàlies d'escuma» is the historical novel by Maria Àngels Anglada, published by L'Avenç in paperback (144 pages, in Catalan).
Glauca of Chios, now elderly, narrates her life in the manner of Hellenistic epic poems. She belongs to a well-off family that cultivates vines on the island of Chios in third-century BC Greece. The novel follows her first loves, the raising of her deceased sister's children, a marriage of convenience, and her definitive relationship, which takes her to Athens; in her gaze, shaped by poetry and music, memory, family, mythology, and the Mediterranean landscape are reflected.
Novel originally published in 1985, reissued in 2017 in the Sèrie Literatures collection of L'Avenç.
For readers interested in historical fiction set in ancient Greece with a female protagonist's voice.
Maria Àngels Anglada was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Spain, in 1920. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. Her first novel, Les Closes , won the 1978 Josep Pla Award. Her 1985 novel Sandàlies d'escuma won the Lletra d'Or Prize. She died in 1999.
