by Rafael Vallbona · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429779134
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«Swing. Allà on la vida venç» is the biographical novel by Rafael Vallbona, published by Edicions 62 in hardcover (560 pages, in Catalan).
Enric Torres, son of businessmen from Palafrugell, becomes passionate about jazz in the 1920s and founds a band that triumphs in Catalonia. After it breaks up, he travels to New York believing that music can improve the world, but the Barcelona of the Civil War shows him the end of that dream. Inspired by the true story of the Red Ribbon's orchestra.
The novel belongs to the El Balancí collection, number 836, and continues the panorama of the 20th century cycle that Vallbona began with «La casa de la frontera».
For readers of biographical fiction and fans of jazz and the history of the first half of the 20th century.
Spanish journalist, professor and writer
