Author: María Barbal
Book title: Pedra de tartera (Stone in a Landslide)
No. of braille volumes: 2
No. of pages in braille issue: 196
Publisher of the book in black print: Arhipelag [arhe-pelag]
Place and year of publishing: Belgrade, 2009
No. of pages in black print: 115
About the book:
Pedra de tartera (Stone in a Landslide) is one of the best novels about the Spanish Civil War and one of the few from this cycle whose author and protagonist are both women. The poignant confession of a woman from the Pyrenees whose life was changed by the civil war. Into her world, which was unaware of history and ideology, the armies of the civil war suddenly break in, and her family becomes the victim. Narrating her life, the heroine of the novel Pedra de tartera (Stone in a Landslide) simply and with ancient strength testifies to the sudden and brutal suffering that characterized her life. Pedra de tartera (Stone in a Landslide) is one of the most important books of modern Catalan literature, a superb work translated into most European languages.