Jordi Llavina Bücher

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.

Der erste Schluck Bier, die Brombeeren im Wald am Ende des Sommers, ein Gespräch am Küchentisch beim Auspulen von Erbsen, der Duft von Äpfeln im Keller, das dunkle Rot eines Portweinglases zum Schmecken, das leise Rauschen der Dynamo gegen das Rad während einer nächtlichen Fahrradtour... Diese und andere kostbare Augenblicke, eingefangen in ihrer Unmittelbarkeit und in Ruhe genossen, bilden das bezaubernde Buch von Philippe Delerm, eine Sammlung von Erzählungen, die flüchtige Momente des Glücks festhalten. "Der erste Schluck Bier und andere kleine Freuden des Lebens" bringt uns mit impressionistischen Akzenten und frischen Farbtupfern zurück zu den langsamen und friedlichen Rhythmen einer längst vergessenen Alltäglichkeit.