by Baltasar Porcel · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429761689
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«Cada castell i totes les ombres» is the novel by Baltasar Porcel, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (416 pages, in Catalan).
The work is a choral novel centered on Pelai Puig Alosa and Ginés Jordi Martigalà, with action over three days in contemporary Barcelona. Poets, executives, and politicians appear, alongside the memory of the civil war. The collapse of a suburb unleashes passions and political struggles, and the city becomes an allegorical picture of the twentieth century.
The work belongs to the El Balancí collection and was awarded the Premi Sant Joan Caixa Sabadell 2008.
For readers of contemporary Catalan fiction seeking urban portraits and choral novels.
Baltasar Porcel i Pujol was a Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature from the 20th century.
