La parada

No Catalan writer has ever portrayed like Ruyra fears, desires, nightmares, nor has he given so much strength to the looks: the fleeting and decisive gloom of falling in love; the striking gaze of poverty; the look of fright that the people of Girona direct at the sky as the end of the world approaches; the penetrating eyes of Jeroni Baltrons, which allow him to unmask the deepest interiors of human souls; and, of course, in the story that gives the book its name, the excitement of the adventure that we share with Ramon, Lluís and Xaneta when they set up a stop to hunt birds in the middle of the night and have to face the ruthless Llambregues. For this reason, and for many other things that you will discover, La Parada continues to be one of the main books in the Catalan narrative tradition.