by Josep Pla · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423330843
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«Cinco historias del mar» is a collection of stories by Josep Pla, published by Destino in paperback (276 pages, in Spanish).
Cinco historias del mar brings together five stories by Josep Pla set on the sea of the Costa Brava. There are shipwrecks, Mediterranean winds, meals by the sea, and characters with ancestral wisdom; Josep Pla portrays that world with tenderness and elevates it to an almost legendary dimension.
Volume 420 of the destinolibro collection, with a detail of Calma blanca (1936) by Salvador Dalí on the cover. Spanish edition of the Catalan original «Cinc històries del mar».
For readers of contemporary fiction, interested in Josep Pla's prose and in stories about the sea and the Costa Brava.
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan and Spanish.
