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A spellbinding novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.

Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain. He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he'd harvested before going on their merry ways. So begins this novel that is as much about the mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst.

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

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    A Paperback / softback by Irene Solà

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      Publisher: Graywolf Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9781644450802, 978-1644450802
      ISBN10: 1644450801

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A spellbinding novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.

      Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain. He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he'd harvested before going on their merry ways. So begins this novel that is as much about the mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst.

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