Jordi Llavina Libri

Poetry & Prose is the first time Jordi Llavina's work has been translated into English and published. The book is a collection of two of his most important and popular pieces of work: The Hermitage and The Pomegranate. In both, Jordi Llavina evokes the sights, sounds and smells of the Mediterranean landscape while weaving together themes of singular poetic beauty. The Hermitage, a long poem of more than 1400 lines, tells of the author's physical and metaphysical journey up a hill in southern Catalonia to visit a hermitage. Llavina touches on many themes in this poem, including love, death, family, loss, hope and memories. In 2019, Jordi Llavina was awarded the prestigious Lletra d'Or prize for this poem. The second piece of work in the collection is The Pomegranate. Again written about a journey, The Pomegranate is a mix of both poetry and prose and tells the story of a grieving wanderer through the Catalan countryside.

London Under Snow is a delicate, compact, mature and profound collection of short stories about winter by Jordi Llavina. Six fragments of different lives in six different moments. In this beautifully written collection, the characters come face to face with their different lives and pasts, all of which are full of ghosts and memories. Sensibility courses through each story, all of them written with a meticulous eye to detail and a careful lyricism that pays tribute to the human condition and the society that we have created.Bringing winter and Christmas celebrations in a variety of places and cultures to life in a selection of beautifully written short stories, Llavina mixes personal experiences with fictional characters to blur the lines between fiction and reality.

La prima sorsata di birra, le more nei boschi alla fine dell'estate, una conversazione attorno al tavolo della cucina sgranando piselli, il profumo delle mele in cantina, il rosso cupo di un bicchiere di porto da centellinare, il lieve fruscio della dinamo contro la ruota durante una pedalata notturna... Questi e altri istanti preziosi, colti nella loro immediatezza e assaporati in tranquillità, vanno a comporre l'incantevole libro di Philippe Delerm, una raccolta di racconti che afferrano al volo brevi e fugaci momenti di felicità. "La prima sorsata di birra e altri piccoli piaceri della vita" ci riporta, con piccoli tocchi impressionistici e fresche pennellate di colore, ai ritmi lenti e sereni di una quotidianità ormai dimenticata.