Empordan Scafarlata is a mirage of memories written with intelligence, irony, courage and tenderness; linking tradition, modernity, resentment and nostalgia for a mythical country and for that part of the river in which: 'he will never swim again.' In a mixture of prose and poetry, Adria Pujol brings us snippets of Emporda, a region of northern Catalonia wedged between the mountains and the sea, and invites us onto its sweaty, well-trodden, exalted paths. All this he does it by avoiding conventions, cliches and with the sincerity of someone who writes about a world he loves and which for that very reason he does not simplify, rather elaborating it with powerful, eclectic prose, showcasing the writing that has pushed Adria Pujol to the very forefront of great Catalan writing.
Paperback / softback | 200 pages | Published November 2023
