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Dark Vales

Author: Raimon Casellas

Translator: Alan Yates   Edited by: Eva Bosch   Cover design: Marie Lane  

The first English translation of a classic of fin de siècle Catalan literature.

The protagonist, Father Llatzer, a priest banished for doctrinal heresy to an isolated, backward mountain parish, struggles to achieve personal redemption by bringing salvation to his primitive, taciturn, rural flock. Their mute atavism is disturbed only by the local whore, Footloose, embodying all the forces against which the priest’s reforming mission is directed. Ambiguity surrounds the denouement of that conflict.

Dark Vales is as as compelling today as when it was first written.

RRP: £9.99

No. of pages: 206

Publication date: 28.02.2014

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 909232 61 7
Ebook
978 1 909232 88 4

Rights:
World English in this translation.