READING CLUB: I SING AND THE MOUNTAIN DANCES

Welcome to our book club. 2020 gave us the opportunity to catch up on our books. Those old friends that the current pace of life had relegated to the bedside table, became our way of leaving reality for a few moments. That is why, in 2021, we launched this small space in which to share with you our passion for literature.

Today we talk about "I sing and the mountain dances" . This book appears at the moment when we leave winter in 'La Cabaña' with nostalgia. I sing and the mountain dances, written by Irene Solà and translated into Spanish by Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera (forthcoming translations into English, Italian, French, Basque and Galician), gives voice to everything animate and inanimate that shapes the Catalan Pyrenees. Set between the towns of Camprodom and Prats de Molló, the book is a skein of stories, with the same common thread, in which from mushrooms to mountains, passing through raindrops, characters from legends and even a roe deer — which in one of its monologues pays homage to a famous poem by Rosalía de Castro — have the floor and talk about dreams, loves, relationships and mistakes.

The roots, the mountainous context and the rural environment serve as a stage to capture, through an almost musical narrative, a magical story, full of beauty (but also bitterness), in which you want to stay and live. A book that you will never want to end and from which emerges a great love for everything that is born, grows and is part of Nature.