{"title":"Books by Irene Solà","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781783788255","title":"When I Sing, Mountains Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eSolà pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time that is irresistible in its jagged glory\u003c\/b\u003e.\" - C Pam Zhang, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Much of These Hills is Gold  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Domenec - mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer - dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut then Hilari dies too, and his sister is forced to face life's struggles and joys alone. As the years tumble by, the inhabitants of the mountain - human, animal and other - come together in a chorus of voices to bear witness to the sorrows of one family, and to the savage beauty of the landscape. This remarkable English-language debut is lyrical, mythical, elemental, and ferociously imaginative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43071161696434,"sku":"9781783788255","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781783788255.jpg?v=1786025520"},{"product_id":"9781803511382","title":"I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003eNestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and caretakers drift in and out. All the women who have ever lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs day turns to night, four hundred years' worth of memories unspool, and the house reverberates with the women's stories. Stories of mysterious visions, of those born without eyelashes and tongues or with deformed hearts. But it begins with the story of the matriarch Joana who double-crosses the devil, heedless of what the consequences might be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness \u003c\/i\u003eis a formally daring and entrancing novel in which Irene Solà explores the duality and essential link between light and darkness, life and death, oblivion and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685797994869,"sku":"9781803511399","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56307367379317,"sku":"9781803511382","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803511399_374ce880-01e6-46e5-844a-f4ad74d4e914.jpg?v=1792598989"},{"product_id":"dams-1","title":"Dams","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter three years spent studying abroad, Ada returns to her rural village and is once again driving around with Vicenç Jr. and coming home giddy late in the summer night. She spends long days recounting stories and inventing some of her own: like the story of the farmer who lost two fingers in a combine and who loves to dance; the story of an attack by a cow; the story of earrings, angrily tossed them into the reservoir, swallowed by an enormous catfish, and how the old catfish, with gold in its belly, was eventually hauled out of the lake by some eager then regretful boys. And the story of the dams that could not, in the end, hold and the water that rushed through the veins, that mercilessly and ecstatically flooded the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating between the story of Ada and Ada's stories, Irene Solà's debut novel is a brilliant and heady ode to life in community, impossible and enduring love, and the wellspring of the imagination that fills everything it touches with magic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507805397365,"sku":"9781803511412","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803511412.jpg?v=1787042945"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-irene-sola.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}