by Maria Barbal · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466411042
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«Càmfora» is the contemporary novel by Maria Barbal, published by Columna CAT in paperback (248 pages, in Catalan).
A family argument in a village bar leads Maurici and Palmira to leave their home and move to Barcelona. Over the years, the distance and returns to their native home reveal a web of silences, grudges and secrets that poisons all relationships. Love and heartbreak, memory, sense of property and the harshness of rural life shape this story.
Third novel in Maria Barbal's Cicle del Pallars. It won the Premi de la Crítica de Narrativa Catalana (1992) and the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Novel·la (1993).
For readers of contemporary fiction who want to delve deeper into Maria Barbal's Cicle del Pallars.
Maria Barbal i Farré is a Spanish writer. She spent her childhood in rural Catalonia, which profoundly influenced her literary work. In 1964, at the age of 14, she moved to Barcelona to pursue her education, eventually earning a degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Barcelona in 1971.
