
Les terres promeses
Edicions 62, 2010 | The Promised Land
Translations
Spanish, Ediciones B
Awards
***Sant Joan Novel Award 2010***
Press
«The best Barril—that of the wise look, gentle, understanding, with which it is able to understand and love people; their dreams, the effect of the passage of time… Pure human chemistry.» Vicenç Villatoro
«A historical fresco of the 20th century: from major disasters and from its hopes and contradictions. A deep reflection on individual causes and the great collective cause.» Ana M. Moix
«Les terres promeses is a round novel, in the sense of its thematic and formal synthesis, its latent ambition, its precise and lyric style, but mostly in the magnetic presence of the human and intellectual personality of Joan Barril.» Sam Abrams, El Mundo
«Les terres promeses reveals very high moral and narrative demands. It is, without a doubt, a work of maturity from Joan Barril.» Lluís Muntada, El País
Synopsis
(The Promised Land) Robert Miranda is a Barcelona native who makes his living laundering money. When preparing to make his final delivery and retire, a hurricane disrupts air traffic and Robert is caught, along with other passengers, at the airport in Cayo Tendido, a small island in the Cuban archipelago.During the long hours of waiting, Lucia, an old woman of Cuban descent, explains the events that occurred on that same island over the last week of 1958, when Fidel Castro was about to enter Havana.
At that time arrived a mysterious young man, armed and in uniform. It was the younger brother of the Castros, a prominent Wall Street economist and professor at Harvard, which had received an important commission from the revolutionaries. In the quiet of that island, Santiago Castro began to become aware of other causes and other dreams, and had to face a profound dilemma.
Les terres promeses is a claim of the right to change, to evolve. A moral and humane novel that reminds us that the real promised land can only be find in that intimate territory close to the values and personal history in each of us.
- 201 contes corrents
- 100 Contes morals
- La dona immòbil
- Sobre la felicitat
- El caçador d'ombres
- Sobre els plaers
- L’espai immens. Quaderns de Namíbia
- Sobre la distància. Catalunya-Espanya
- Sobre l’amor
- Nos llamamos y otros cuentos del domingo
- Certes mentides
- Casi una pareja
- Todos los puertos se llaman Helena
- Parada obligatoria
- Condición de padre
MB Authors Fiction
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Olivia GALLO
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Gemma RUIZ
- Màrius SERRA
- Ramon SOLSONA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI