Wednesday 27 November, at 19 hours, we invite you to a new session of Literary Coffee. This time we will focus on the novel A story is a stone thrown into the river by Monica Batet. with ever, we will meet at the venue, around a table, a coffee (or other drinks). If everything goes well, there will also be cookies or something to nibble on.
Batet's novel explains the evolution of a family living under a dictatorship, with all that entails. In fact, we can see all the phases of the family and the dictatorship: before, during and after. With this elements, Batet makes a different novel, timeless, magic, contemporary and traditional at the same time, who won the Crexells prize.
L'editorial ens diu:
The Future Folklorist and the Future Revolutionary became friends at a dance school, even though they didn't care at all to learn about it. In fact, they are only interested in folk tales (and then the songs, and the games) and they become great experts, until one day the rulers will alter the fate of the whole society and, of couse, the two of them. Between oral and literary tradition, every reader can recognize the characters and the city they live in despite their namelessness. Also the country where it all happens, the historical moment, social changes. Each line of the book will vibrate within him with the memory of lived events, known or narrated: the underground struggle against a dictatorial power, the desire for full freedom, the paralyzing poison of repression, the unifying force of a song...
In addition to coming to the Literary Café, if you are interested in this book, you can read an article at Vilaweb. that he recommends explaining it. If you are more into listening to podcasts, here you are The island of Mayans dedicated to this novel. And you can too to see the author giving us five cents of the story.
Monica Batet (The Armentera Bridge, 1976) she studied Catalan Philology at the URV and works as a Catalan teacher and editor. He has published five novels and a collection of short stories. With the second novel, Don't look at the River (Meteor, 2012), was a finalist in the Crexells Award. With his previous novel, Nine blocks north (More Books, 2019) won the Nollegiu Award.
