by Josep Pla · Proa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484376514
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«Contraban» is Josep Pla's adventure story, published by Proa in 2003 in paperback, with 152 pages, in Catalan.
In the postwar period, three men cross the French border aboard the Mestral, from Cadaqués to Salses, in Roussillon, to load the boat with contraband. The journey becomes complicated and turns into an adventure that allows Pla to evoke seafaring life, the Catalan coast, characters of the era, and local cuisine.
It belongs to the Les Eines collection (number 31) and includes a map of the route, a diagram of the parts of a boat, and a nautical vocabulary.
Intended for young readers aged 12 and up and for those who want to start with Josep Pla's prose in Catalan.
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.
