La drecera

The narrator of this story, just out of childhood, lives in a small village in the Empordà with his parents, who work as farmers in the villa of a wealthy family. Fascinated, he observes the lives of the lords and their children, who inhabit a world inaccessible and increasingly contradictory to him. As the days and seasons go by, he will take his gaze back to the environment that sees him grow and that seems to be increasingly endangered, threatened by a new model of life. The shortcut describes a missing physical and human landscape, a victim of urban pressure, and vindicates, with a rich language and closely linked to the territory, the roots of a village located between land and sea and offers us, with a delicacy out of the ordinary, an exquisite and subtle account of the transition to adult life.