Les Closes

Synopsis of Les Closes

«Les Closes» is the novel by Maria Àngels Anglada Abadal, published by Destino CAT in paperback within the El Trident collection, in Catalan.

First novel by Maria Àngels Anglada, it recreates the memory of an exceptional woman in 19th-century Empordà through letters, press clippings and oral testimonies. It blends realism and poetry to portray a landscape and an era marked by the Carlist wars and phylloxera.

The novel was originally published in 1978, the year it won the Premi Josep Pla; this Destino CAT edition is from 2006. The cover reproduces a fragment of «Primavera», by Joaquim Vayreda.

For readers of contemporary Catalan fiction interested in historical novels and the literary portrayal of the Empordà landscape.