When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Solà, Irene

A spellbinding novel that places one family's tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.

Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to "reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain." He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he'd harvested before going on their merry ways. So begins this novel that is as much about the mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst.

Author: Irene Solà
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781644450802

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/17/2022
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 21
Foreword 02/27/2022
Shelf Awareness 04/01/2022