ENGLISH

Voices of the Old Sea

By Norman Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Perseus Books Group;Eland Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9781780600345
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
483 kB (494887 bytes)
Pages
250\0
Time added
2015-05-04 05:29:41

Description

In the late 1940s, Norman Lewis settled in a remote fishing village on what is now the Costa Brava, relishing a society where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made frugal ends meet. Over the course of three years he watches with sorrow and affection as the villagers struggle to hang on to a way of life unchanged for centuries. How long can their precarious economy, their ancient feuds and traditions – not least the evenings of impromptu blank verse in the bar – hold out against the encroaching tide of package tourism, which sidles insidiously into the village with the arrival of black-marketeer Muga?

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