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Black Bread (Paperback)
Emili Teixidor; Translated by Peter Bush
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R321
Discovery Miles 3 210
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In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War
is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist
Civil Guard. With his father in jail, facing possible execution as
a subversive, and his mother working long hours in a factory,
eleven-year-old Andreu is sent to live with his grandmother,
uncles, aunts and cousins in a farmhouse in a remote valley. His
inquisitive, self-taught grandmother encourages him to study, but
who will Andreu become? He doesn't want to be a farmhand, or work
in a factory, or flee into exile in France like his uncle and aunt.
His cousin Nuria invites him to play sex games with her in the
woods, but Andreu cannot stop thinking about a young man he sees
lying naked in a monastery garden. Confronted on all sides by the
need to define himself, Andreu must make a difficult decision. One
of the major novels of contemporary Spain, and the inspiration for
the first film in the Catalan language to be nominated by Spain for
an Academy Award, Black Bread brings to life a rural world of
mythical force as it traces with piercing psychological insight, in
gorgeous prose, the movements of a boy's psyche as he contemplates
growing into an adult. Born in 1933, Emili Teixidor's first novel,
Retrato de un asesino de pajaros, was published to tremendous
acclaim in 1988, followed by several more which established him as
one of Spain's greatest contemporary authors. Teixidor died in
2012.
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