" Solà pushes past the limits of human experience to tell a story of instinct and earth-time
that is irresistible in its jagged glory ." - C Pam Zhang author of How Much of These Hills is
Gold 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. This
remarkable English-language debut is lyrical mythical elemental and ferociously imaginative.
