Irene Solá - Énekelek s táncot jár a mountain

The most important author of young Catalan literature presents a beautiful but very closed world in his first novel published in Hungarian: the world of the Pyrenees, where people live on scattered mountain farms and are separated not only by distance, but also by their own insoluble loneliness. Among the mountains, death and violence are present at every moment, the rocks preserve and echo the memories of the Spanish Civil War past. Sio lives in such a secluded community, and after her wedding, she exchanges city life for her husband's farm. The woman soon experiences how cruel life is at high altitude: her husband is struck by lightning, and her son dies in a hunting accident. Songs is about Sió's family, the people living around them and the nature that constantly interacts with them, and the mountain dances. Irene Solá's novel is a lyrically beautiful story about the past that lives with us, the beliefs and superstitions that drive small communities, and the time that passes in a completely different way in the mountains.