Dams by Irene Solà
After 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. Alternating 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.
Irene Solà is unlike any other writer - she storms her own path, setting fire to all our preconceived notions of what a novel can do while she goes
Irene Solà is the author of the novels When I Sing, Mountains Dance and I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, and the poetry collection Beast.
Mara Faye Lethem is a writer, researcher and award-winning translator. Her recent translations include books by Irene Solà, Alana S. Portero, Jaume Cabré and Pol Guasch.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781803511412 |
| ISBN 10 | 1803511419 |
| Title | Dams |
| Author | Irene SolÃÂ |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2026-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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