by Ramon Folch i Camarasa · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429743449
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«Testa de vell en bronze» is the novel by Ramon Folch i Camarasa, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (240 pages, in Catalan).
In Francoist Barcelona in 1947, August Bonafont, an intellectual and educator who was distinguished before the Civil War, lives as a solitary and prematurely aged widower. The memory of Elisenda, his first love, breaks into his mind and drives him to seek the woman who marked his youth, in a story about the desire to start again and the power of feelings.
The novel belongs to the El Balancí collection from Edicions 62. It won the Premi Sant Joan Caixa de Sabadell 1997.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction in Catalan interested in contemporary fiction, memory and the passage of time.
Spanish writer and translator (1926–2019)
