A spellbinding novel that places one family’s tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to “reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.” He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he’d harvested before going on their merry ways. So begins this novel that is as much about the mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst.
When I Sing, Mountains Dance: A Novel by Irene Solà
Irene Solà is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of the novels The Dams, When I Sing, Mountains Dance and I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness, and the poetry collection Beast.
ISBN-13: 9781644450802
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 03/15/2022
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)
Books - Fiction | Literary
Books - Fiction | Nature & the Environment
LC Subjects:
-Nature -Effect of human beings on
-Families -Pyrenees
-Nature fiction





