by Jesús Moncada · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429754582
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«Històries de la mà esquerra» is the short story collection by Jesús Moncada, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (176 pages, in Catalan).
The stories recreate childhood and youth memories in old Mequinensa, with miners, boats sailing down the Ebro, café gatherings and funerals. Moncada blends reality and dream, myths and superstitions, with a colloquial tone and local expressions to leave a written record of a vanished world.
Winner of the Joan Santamaría Prize 1971, originally published in 1981 and reissued in 2004 in the Butxaca collection.
For readers of short fiction in Catalan interested in rural memory, oral tradition and the recovery of the past.
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-.
