The "rural and polygonal" Basque Country of the 90s is resurrected in Pleibac, the second novel by Miren Amuriza (Berriz, 1990) which Pau Joan Hernàndez has translated into Catalan for Club Editor with grace and skill, to which he has added the transgressive linguistic vocation of the original. The book tells the story of friendship and betrayal between two adolescents, Jone and Polly, who grow up in the same Biscayan municipality where the author followed the family tradition of singing improvised verses in Basque. Years after establishing herself as a bertsolari and publishing several poetry collections, Amuriza tried her hand at prose in Basa (Elkar, 2019; in Spanish by Consonni), and now repeats the experience with a novel that flows down like a fresh beer after a party with friends.

Fish, the fifth novel that Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, ​​1978), published by Club Editor, tells the passionate yet destructive love story of two women. The first is a writer who narrates her journey of fascination, anguish, fear, and escape from her lover. The second, named Victoria, sells paper cones of fish at street markets and lives in a house reminiscent of those Gothic mansions where anything is possible. Translated into some twenty languages ​​and a Booker Prize finalist with BoulderBaltasar is one of the most internationally renowned authors of Catalan literature. Fish It confirms, once again, the singularity, power, and lyricism of his proposal.

"A son is like the sea. He shines before the houses, and a voice in his eyes the morning, the midday, the murky sunset, and the night, warm, violet, and crystallized like a glass of wine." Thus begins the moving and delicate monologue of the mother of Andreu Crous, protagonist ofHaceldamaHe recites to the chronicler who records his humble and unfortunate life after his death as a result of the train bombing perpetrated by his son. It is one of the most impressive and also one of the most controversial episodes in the second novel by Blai Bonet (Santanyí,1926 - Cala Figuera, 1997), published in Aymá Published in 1959 and now reissued, two decades after Ensiola's version (2005), by Club Editor, restoring the original text without the censorship, especially editorial, of the proofreaders of the time.

After The Year of the Monkey and ofSome kidsClub Editor publishes a new book by Patti Smith: The bread of angelsLike the others, this is a memoir, but unlike the others, this one is not dedicated to any specific period in the author's life; rather, it recounts her entire life. The title is a reference to "unpremeditated acts of kindness," but it comes from Psalm 78, which speaks of the food that falls from heaven and satisfies the Israelites. In the Psalm, however, after gorging themselves, they see how God takes the lives of all young men in an equally haphazard way. If it isn't, it seems like a premonition.

"Nine orangutans are sleeping in the hold of a ship. They sleep with moans and occasional shudders as the drug they've been injected with begins to fade, also with slow movements limited by the bars of the cages they're locked in. One cage for all, and this night is dead for all." Thus it begins. A rain song, the eleventh novel by Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpignan, 1963). It tells the story of the life of an orangutan, baptized as Ella-Calla, from the cage where she has been temporarily deprived of her freedom on the island of Borneo to the forest where she can reunite with her relatives.

Jesús Moncada (Mequinenza, 1941 - Barcelona, ​​​​2005) was one of the most important writers of European literature from the mid-20th century. This is demonstrated by the seventeen translations (into German, English, Aragonese, Spanish, Danish, Slovenian, French, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Serbian and Vietnamese) of his Catalan and looked at you as if you were a wretch," says editor Maria Bohigas, alma mater from Club Editor. The writer's sudden death at the age of 63 cut short his work and also changed its reception.

Kindness, austerity, trust, perseverance, loyalty, honesty, solidarity, realism. The family—the extended family of the title—of the narrator of Antònia Carré-Pons's new novel, Montserrat Vidal, owns a delicatessen, and these are the values—the values of a shopkeeper—that she learns.

What a beautiful book, with echoes of classical myth and biblical parable! And what profound simplicity throughout! Just three characters (two siblings living alone and a newcomer to their home), always in the same place (a place with broad horizons, next to a lake, with forests nearby). Hege, the sister, will soon be forty and is already starting to count gray hairs. She knits: she makes sweaters, which she then sells. Her brother, Mattis, known to everyone as the Talos Because he's a different boy, three years younger than Hege, and has no job or subsidy. Of course, his questions often reveal the deepest cracks in his sister's conservative mentality. They think he's a complete fool, but, without realizing it, he possesses a kind of almost prophetic, disconcerting wisdom. Near where they live, there are two twin trees, two tremors: Mattis has always believed they represented the two siblings.

"If anyone notices that they are bleeding from their nose because I am speaking Catalan, please say so. I am not going to switch to Castilian, but I will call an ambulance. Ambulance, in Catalan." The one who says this, and makes an enthusiastic audience laugh, is Òscar Andreu. He is the protagonist of the first chapter of the series. Mental hospitals, which is broadcast on the 3Cat platform, and in which comedian Ignasi Taltavull talks with some of the most prominent stand-up comedians on the Catalan scene about a central theme for them. In Andreu's case, it is precisely the language, Catalan, that is the protagonist of his monologue. Call to brightly colored birds. He has been touring the country for a few months now, but I have not yet managed to see him. That is why I liked watching this new programme, which, with the permission of Mònica Planas, I highly recommend. In his episode, Andreu explains the Andalusian origins of part of his family and says that until he was 18 he spoke mainly in Spanish. Then, however, he decided that he would speak "Catalan in Catalonia, something very difficult!" After discovering that Catalan was not a language invented by his mother, he began to take an interest in sociolinguistics. Andreu finds that it is a good time to talk about the subject, and The truth is that the data from the Generalitat's Survey of Language Uses, unfortunately, confirm this.. The comic considers himself optimistic about the future of the language, but says that we will have to make an effort. He thinks it is essential that politicians get involved, and one of the examples he gives is that it is not incompatible to worry about climate change and, at the same time, to look after the language.