by Jesús Moncada · RBA La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474107609
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«Camí de sirga» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jesús Moncada, published by RBA La Magrana in paperback (352 pages, in Catalan).
Set in Mequinenza, a town on the banks of the Ebro condemned to disappear beneath the waters of the Riba-roja reservoir, the novel weaves together the lives and memories of its inhabitants. Moncada evokes the last hundred years of a town marked by mining and river traffic, and reflects on memory and the impact of progress on the rural world.
Originally published in 1988, this edition is from 2000. It was recognised with the Joan Crexells, Ciutat de Barcelona, Crítica Serra d'Or and Nacional de la Crítica awards.
A reference of contemporary Catalan literature, for readers of literary fiction and stories about the memory of vanished towns.
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-.
