The boys
By: Toni Sala ; translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
Contributors: Lethem, Mara Faye, translator
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781931883498
Subjects: Fiction; Catalan fiction; Life change events; Young men
Work titles: Els nois
Description: "The once-bucolic Catalonian village of Vidreres has been ravaged by a harsh recession, and now two of its young men have died in a horrible car crash. As the town attends the funeral, a banker named Ernest heads to the tree where they died, trying to make sense of the tragedy. There he meets a brutish trucker, who in between Internet hookups and trips to prostitutes has taken a liking to Iona, the fiancée of one of the dead boys. Iona might be just what he needs to fix his tawdry life, but she's mixed up with an artist who makes frightening projects. Masterfully conjuring the voices of each of these four characters, Toni Sala entwines their lives and their feelings of guilt, fear, and rage over an unspeakable loss."--Amazon.com.