by Maria Barbal · El Aleph Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476698051
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«Canto rodado» is the historical novel by Maria Barbal, published by El Aleph Editores in 2007 in paperback (120 pages, in Spanish).
Conxa is thirteen when her parents, poor peasants from the Catalan Pyrenees, take her to live with a childless aunt. Her marriage to Jaume brings modest happiness, until war erupts in the village and transforms her life. The novel deals with love, death and the female condition in the rural world of the early twentieth century.
First instalment of Maria Barbal's Cicle del Pallars; «Pedra de tartera» (1985) is the original novel in Catalan, translated by Ana M. Moix Messeguer. Volume 274 of the Modernos y clásicos collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in rural Spain and the Civil War from the perspective of a female protagonist.
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.
