Porcel Baltasar Porcel, Getman John L. Getman (TRN) Horses into the Night

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Belonging with the work of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Julio Cortzar, this richly drawn story runs the gamut from lyrical to violent to pastoral. Originally published in 1975, Cavalls cap a la fosca was hailed by the public and critics alike as perhaps the most incisive Catalan novel since the Spanish Civil War. It was honored with four prestigious literary prizes, including the 1976 Spanish Literary Critics' AwardIn Horses into the Night, the narrator's search for his roots-especially for his father-among the myths, stories, lies, and truths of his family and hometown, strikes a universal chord. As the plot becomes increasingly textured with piracy, smuggling, the Inquisition, morbid familial relationships, eroticism, and occult occurrences, it is all but impossible to resist this epic story described by El Pais as a "Mediterranean novel flooded with light and bathed in darkness."