Xavier Bosch recommends a book that "multiplies the reader's intimate enjoyment."

"Perhaps since Josep Pla we have not had a narrator who, with such a sharp journalistic eye, walked the earth, contemplated it and described it with such precision," says the writer Xavier Bosch about the literary work of journalist Lluís Foix (Rocafort de Vallbona, Urgell, 1943). The writer entered The Vanguard in the late 1960s and has been associated with the house for more than five decades, as a translator, journalist, correspondent, commentator, director and in other management positions. When he turned 70, he began a second life, because he began to write books "memorialistic, not memoirs" - he claimed - with The marinade always arrives (2013): "I have lived through interesting times and have met people who have been protagonists of political situations, but also literary ones," justified in the ARAIn 2016 he won the Josep Pla award for That revolving door, a journalistic memoir.

The author of Diagonal Manhattan I had already read years ago What the earth has given me (2017) and had captivated him. "It moved me. The skill of the short sentence, the ability to draw a landscape with two adjectives, and a handful of reflections on nature integrated into our lives moved me," Bosch says. Foix took a personal and intimate journey through the passing of the seasons in his native landscape.

Bosch has once again dazzled us now with Foix's latest book, The strength of the roots, "a title with all its literal and metaphorical meaning," he observes. The author once again plays at home, like a farmer, and speaks of the importance of each person's intellectual, spiritual, and cultural origins. "It's no coincidence that someone who has been a correspondent in London and Washington, and who has reported from 84 countries, manages to make stones speak and place his beloved Corb Valley on the literary map. When the local becomes global, the reader's intimate enjoyment multiplies exponentially," Bosch concludes.