by Josep Pla · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423307111
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«El carrer estret» is the novel by Josep Pla, published by Destino in paperback (241 pages, in Catalan).
The novel is set in Torrelles, a small imaginary town in contemporary Catalonia. Through the eyes of a newly arrived veterinarian and the voice of his cook Francisqueta, Josep Pla portrays the daily life and solitude of anonymous characters, between the costumbrismo sketch and neorealism.
«El carrer estret» won the Joanot Martorell Prize in 1951, the year it was first published. This edition, the eighth, was published in December 1990.
For readers of Catalan fiction, costumbrismo and neorealist literature, and for those who want to discover Josep Pla's novels.
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.
