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Cover winner at “Premi llança Òmnium Cultural 2012″ in the fiction category!
“Tot canvia després d’un altre got d’absenta. Deixes el got damunt la taula, mires per la finestra i tens temps de veure una línia de llum que recorre fugaçment el carrer, il·lumina per un instant la roba estesa en un balcó i es clava al portal de casa. Darrere dels vidres encesos endevines les siluetes dels Nohisom, que es deixen engolir per la fosca de l’escala. Ara passen les cosines Tonell, que corren cap al teatre aferrades a la bossa. Madona Quèlonia, la més vella del barri, escura les seves eternes escopinyes. I sempre aquesta llum que projecta clarobscurs en tots els rostres que troba, tots anònims i alhora protagonistes del dia a dia. Què els passa pel cap? Quines penes els afligeixen? Quines secretes alegries? Per què no riu mai el cambrer Zero? En Borris Sol esgarrapa la guitarra i en treu una cançó d’amor que només el seu germà valorarà com cal. Les persianes del senyor Búnquer ho vigilen tot. La llum declina.”
Tina Vallès observes the life lived on the stairs, streets, neighborhood. Imagine traces of stories in the guise of normal shadows that pass by our side and we can hardly see, but are part of our lives. And it does so with subtlety and precision of a fleeting light focuses to the smallest detail and suggests quite a scene.
Tina Vallès born in Barcelona in 1976. Degree in Catalan Philology, works as a translator and corrector since 1999. She has published some of his stories in various anthologies, and premiered at Labreu Editors in 2006 with L’aeroplà del Rava (based on the eponymous blog). Since 2009 weaves stories on the blog “Ganxet sota les pedres”. In 2011 she published his first novel, Maic (Baula Edicions).
Early versions of some of the stories of “Un altre got d’absenta” come from the magazine “Paper de Vidre” and the two blogs by the author. This collection is a project that has been brewing since 2007 and that you have reached has been successful thanks to the teacher Georges Perec and the ever inspiring Raval.
Fuente: LaBreu Web
Artículo: Revista Núvol.
El Blog de Tina: Ganxet sota les pedres.
Area
PERSONAL ILLUSTRATION
Date
03/04/2012
Author
Tina Vallès
Client
LaBreu Edicions.
Collection
Banda Ampla, 4
Design
Oriol Malet
Publishing house
LaBreu Edicions
ISBN
978-84-939632-1-7
Language
Català
Price
14 euros
Type of printing
Cartoné
Release date
28/03/2012
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