by Jesús Moncada · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429775631
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«Camí de sirga» is the literary fiction novel by Jesús Moncada, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (288 pages, in Catalan).
The novel evokes the memory of Mequinensa, the old town on the Ebro that was submerged under the Riba-roja reservoir. Moncada reconstructs the last hundred years of a community marked by mining and river traffic through its characters and their memories, with prose of historical precision and great vividness.
The novel was originally published in 1988 and received, among others, the Joan Crexells, Ciutat de Barcelona and National Critics' awards. This edition is from 2017, in the El Balancí collection.
Recognized by critics and readers, it is a gateway to contemporary Catalan literature for those seeking a novel of historical memory.
Jesús Moncada i Estruga was a narrator and translator. His work is a re-creation, somewhere between realism and fantasy, of the mythical past of the old town of Mequinenza -now submerged beneath the waters of the river Ebro-.
