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This is a magical little book that weaves together perspectives and vignettes of the occupants of a small village in the Pyrenees. A portrait of collective memory, History pickpickand life on the mountainside – from the children and villagers to the rain and the ghosts of witches and soldiers. Savannah
When 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. But 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.