I gave you eyes and you looked toward darkness : a novel / Irene Solà ; translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solà, Irene, 1990- author.

Contributor:

Lethem, Mara, translator.

Standardized Title:

Et vaig donar ulls i vas mirar les tenebres. English

Language:

Catalan

English

Subjects (All):

Guillerías Region (Spain)--Fiction.

Guillerías Region (Spain).

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

162 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party. As day turns to night, four hundred years' worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasure and pain. It all begins with Joana, Mas Clavell's matriarch, who once longed for a husband-"a full man," perhaps even "an heir with a patch of land and a roof over his head." She summoned the devil to fulfill her wish and struck a deal: a man in exchange for her soul. But when, on her wedding day, Joana discovered that her husband was missing a toe (eaten by wolves), she exploited a loophole in her agreement, heedless of what consequences might follow. I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is an audacious and entrancing novel in which the lines between the dead and the living, past and present, story and history are blurred. In it, Irene Solà draws on oral tradition as well as art, literature, and fairy tales to tell a completely new kind of story."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2023 as Et vaig donar ulls i vas mirar les tenebres by Editorial Anagrama"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Solà, Irene, 1990- I gave you eyes and you looked toward darkness

ISBN:

9781644453438

1644453436

OCLC:

1452444389