by Joan Barril Cuxart · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475966427
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«Tots els ports es diuen Helena» is the novel by Joan Barril, published in 1999 by Editorial Empúries in paperback (184 pages, in Catalan).
Guillem, a twelve-year-old boy, lives in Bruges by a canal, at the home of Pier, his mother's boyfriend, a man of few words who works in river transport. With him he travels from Rotterdam to the Black Sea on a journey through a Europe marked by art and war, where love and the senses awaken and music acts as a common thread.
First edition. Part of the Empúries Narrativa collection, number 99. It won the Premi Ramon Muntaner 1998 and the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Literatura infantil i juvenil 2000.
For readers of coming-of-age and travel novels, with an interest in Europe, the awakening of the senses and music as a shared experience.
