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2021
catalogue
Distribution: BOOKSOURCE
Sales: SIGNATURE BOOK SALES UK (sales@signaturebooksuk.com)
the silent letter
by jaume subirana
Poetry / Worldwide rights
Published 15 January, 2021
Flapped Paperback, 120 pages, £11.99
ISBN: 978-1-9162939-9-1
Also available as an ebook
Translated from Catalan by Christopher
Whyte
Jaume Subirana, a prize-winning poet with awards such as the Carles Riba and the Gabriel Ferrater, presents
here a selection of poetry that is the fruit of a harvest that comes from many different soils and that has rea-
ched maturity over the last few years. While recognising and celebrating teachers, nature, friends and love in
these poems, Jaume uses his measured voice and delicate emotions to bring us a selection of poetry that is both
beautiful and inspiring.
Praise for Jaume’s work
“Subirana is ever faithful to his poetry, bringing it to life time and again. His work is serene, excellent, full of
echoes of literary standing and precise creativity. His is a mature, important poetry. Bravo.”
Jordi Galves, La Vanguardia
“Subirana demonstrates yet again that he is a strong, sensitive, minimalist poet who writes because he is in tune
with tones and bursts of colour, of smells and aromas, and touch. He constructs his objects carefully, building
them through his text, imagery and all of the efimer pleaures that, quite naturally, are impossible to otherwise
communicate.”
Jordi Carrera, Un dia en les carreras
“Open any of Subirana’s books at random and you will feel yourself carried away by the natural current of his
beautiful poetry.”
Francesc Parcerisas
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andrea víctrix
by llorenç villalonga
Fiction / Worldwide rights
Published 15 March, 2021
Flapped Paperback, 290 pages, £13.99
ISBN: 978-1-9162939-4-6
Also available as an ebook
Translated from Catalan by Louise Johnson
Awarded the Premi Josep Pla in 1973
Andrea Víctrix presents a dystopian vision of Palma, Mallorca, now named ‘Turclub’, in the year 2050. The
unnamed narrator, who bears a certain resemblance to the author, had placed himself in voluntary cryo-stasis
in 1965, fatigued by modern ‘civilization’ and morality, only to reawaken 85 years later with the physique of a
30-year old. Villalonga sets up an intriguing interplay between the narrator and the eponymous, androgynous
Andrea Víctrix, so-called Director of Pleasure, in a satirical, sometimes self-ironizing exploration of contem-
porary issues such as gender and sexuality, consumerism, environmental disaster and the politics of big busi-
ness. Both of its time and startlingly prescient, Andrea Víctrix merits a place amongst the greats of European
dystopian fiction.
“This is, until someone proves otherwise, the best dystopian literature ever written in Catalan. And I say this
not because of Llorenç Villalonga’s singular narrative talent, but rather because of his exceptional development
of a series of ideas that provide Andrea Víctrix with a speculative solidity that is difficult to find anywhere else.”
Ramon Mas, Les Males Herbes
“With the novel Andrea Víctrix, Llorenç Villalonga’s amalgamation is a spasmotic, incredible story, accumula-
tive and grotesque, truly original, unique and highly relevant in its own literary context.”
Andrea Navarra, The Barcelona Review
“A truly great novel, beautiful and terrfying in equal parts, tender and groundbreaking, and one that should be
read for many years to come. A warning from history.”
Jordi Llavina, El 3 de Vuit
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the others
by raül garrigasait
Fiction / Worldwide rights
Published 15 May, 2021
Flapped Paperback, 190 pages, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1-913744-00-7
Also available as an ebook
Translated from Catalan by Tiago Miller
Winner: Premi Llibreter 2017
Winner: Best Catalan Language Novel, 2017
In 1837, at the height of the Carlist Wars and a time of conflict between the past and future, a young Prussian
man crosses the Pyrenees to fight for the ‘Order’. Finding himself trapped in the ruins of an abandoned city,
his bewilderment at the war and what it means increases. Friendship, family, religion and politics: everything
is distorted, transformed or destroyed. The Others oscillates masterfully between humour and tragedy and is a
novel full of music, eccentric characters and extraordinary scenes.
“The Others forces us to leave our comfort zone, and to steer away from indifference, banality, and conformity.
A magnificent book!”
Sam Abrams, El Mundo
“This fantastic book provides us with a reflection of our modern-day selves. The echoes with the present are so
intense that it leaves you breathless after every phrase. The Others has the courage to force us to ask ourselves:
‘What skeletons lurk in our cupboards?’”
Toni Sala, Ara
“This majestic novel contains moments or tenderness, humour and violence. Garrigasait’s writing is both
precise and totally brilliant, and allows us to take a closer look at a country and mentality that is still with us
almost two centuries later.”
Jordi Puntí, El Periódico
“With The Others, Garrigasait submerges us is a lucid clarity that is nothing less that marvellous.”
Esteve Plantada, Nació Digital
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the intimate resistance
by josep maria esquirol
Essay / Worldwide rights
Published 15 July, 2021
Flapped Paperback, 180 pages, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1-9162939-1-5
Also available as an ebook
Translated from Catalan by Douglas Suttle
The Intimate Resistance is a keen, deeply beautiful reflection on the human condition. The author explains how
we ourselves can warm, protect and guide those around us. “The intimate resistance is the name for an experien-
ce belonging to a state of proximity; a state cannot be visited in one day, but rather habitually. Today, to remain
in this state is by no means simple. Proximity cannot be measured in metres or centimetres. Its opposite is not
distance, but rather the ubiquitous monotony of a world dominated by technology. What is clear is that day to
day and home life are essential ways of experiencing proximity.”
“Against our compulsive immediateness and hyperconnectivity, against permanent public exposition and dis-
persion, Esquirol proposes the pausing, talking clearing, proximity, difference, reflection, the reinvention of
the gaze, the return to thought.”
Josep Massot, La Vanguardia
“It’s one of those books that will never go out of fashion and I dare say that his reflections will serve as a refe-
rence for future generations.”
Lluís Foix, El Punt Avui
“A captivating essay that focusses on stimulating, intentional reflection. And, very importantly, it is magnifi-
cently written. Don’t miss it.”
Guillem Pufarré, El Temps
“A philosophical essay, as deep as it is entertaining, that promotes fundamental values.”
Josep Maria Ripoll, Serra d’Or
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forty lost years
by rosa maria arquimbau
Fiction / Worldwide rights
Published 15 September, 2021
Flapped Paperback, 220 pages, £13.99
ISBN: 978-1-913744-01-4
Also available as an ebook
Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush
Published for the first time in 1971, Forty Lost Years tells the story of Laura Vidal, a woman who becomes a
high-fashion dressmaker to the rich women of Barcelona during Franco’s dictatorship. Rosa Maria Arquimbau’s
masterpiece relives forty years of Catalan history from the proclamation of the Republic to the end of the 1960s
and recreates the frivolous atmosphere of sexually liberal republican Barcelona and the desolation of a country
defeated by the Fascists.
“The author filters her own experiences and reflections on the period through her magnificent prose and a
prism of personal and political insights that perfectly represent living under a dictatorship and the pain and
suffering that society went through. An essential book.”
Esther Vilar Portillo, Caràcters
“A beautifully written, bitter novel about the loss of innocence. Its disenchanted, melancholic tone sets the sce-
ne for what is one of the most powerful novels about life under Franco.”
Pere Guixà, La Vanguardia
Peter Bush
Peter Bush is one of the outstanding literary translators in the world. He has won countless awards for his trans-
lations and is responsible for bringing works by Josep Pla, Merce Rodoreda and Joan Sales to English-language
reader. He has held key positions in a number of the most important translation organisations.
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www.fumdestampa.com Instagram - @fumdestampathe song of youth
by montserrat roig
Fiction / Worldwide rights
Published 15 November, 2021
Flapped Paperback, 175 pages, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1-913744-02-1
Also available as an ebook
Translated from Catalan by Tiago Miller
Winner of the Victor Català Award.
In the eight stories presented in The Song of Youth, Montserrat Roig (Barcelona, 1946-1991) employs language
as a weapon against political and social “dismemory”, enabling the stories of those silenced by the brutal Franco
regime to come to the fore. Feminist, critical but always lyrical, Roig’s writing gives shape and meaning to the
human experience.
“Montserrat Roig is the first total female writer in the history of Catalan literature.”
Marta Pessarrodona
“A more melancholic tone, with more dramatic situation and countrpoints marked in sadness mark the eight
short stories that make up The Song of Youth, Roig’s last collection of narrative, the collection showing the
thematic maturity and style so typical of the author.”
Carles Geli, El País
“Montserrat Roig is one of the writers of contemporary Catalan literature with the furthest global reach in
terms of European letters.”
Teresa Amiguet, La Vanguardia
“Roig brings with her a good dose of adventure. In her words and in her expressions. She was a woman who
wrote and lived life to the full, and everything she searched for, she found.”
Mercé Ibarz, Barcelona.cat
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