When I Sing, Mountains Dance - Irene Sola
Set against the looming summits of the Pyrenees, ‘When I Sing, Mountains Dance’ follows the sorrows of one family and the terrible beauty of this wild landscape. When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - shockingly dies, he leaves behind two young children whose lives are thrown into upheaval. This captivating English-language debut by Irene Sola is both mystifying and mythical, elemental and beautifully imaginative. Profoundly unique, Sola weaves together the tragedies and the triumphs of all the inhabitants of the mountains. The novel is as much about nature and the mountains as it is about the human and historical dramas that unfold in their midst.
Set against the looming summits of the Pyrenees, ‘When I Sing, Mountains Dance’ follows the sorrows of one family and the terrible beauty of this wild landscape. When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - shockingly dies, he leaves behind two young children whose lives are thrown into upheaval. This captivating English-language debut by Irene Sola is both mystifying and mythical, elemental and beautifully imaginative. Profoundly unique, Sola weaves together the tragedies and the triumphs of all the inhabitants of the mountains. The novel is as much about nature and the mountains as it is about the human and historical dramas that unfold in their midst.
Set against the looming summits of the Pyrenees, ‘When I Sing, Mountains Dance’ follows the sorrows of one family and the terrible beauty of this wild landscape. When Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - shockingly dies, he leaves behind two young children whose lives are thrown into upheaval. This captivating English-language debut by Irene Sola is both mystifying and mythical, elemental and beautifully imaginative. Profoundly unique, Sola weaves together the tragedies and the triumphs of all the inhabitants of the mountains. The novel is as much about nature and the mountains as it is about the human and historical dramas that unfold in their midst.