The Winter Book

Name: The Winter Book
Brand: Batidora Ediciones
SKU: 9791399150155
Price: 14.20 EUR
Availability: InStock

€14,20

Can the silence of a forgotten place teach you to listen to your own voice?

Discover one of Francesc Miralles' first works in this new Spanish edition. An initiatory novel that explores the need to escape, the mystery of synchronicity, and the true art of writing one's own destiny on life's "blank page."

Our destiny is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. — Henri Miller

Joel is 16 years old and has only one wish: to escape. Trapped in "Bellvitgegrado," a gray neighborhood of concrete blocks on the outskirts of Barcelona, he dreams of sunsets in Australia while feeling his life melt like snow through his fingers. For him, traveling is not tourism; it is a matter of spiritual survival.

His adventure begins with an imminent escape plan and an unexpected stop in Malnom, an abandoned village in the heart of the Pyrenees where he has inherited a ruined house. What was meant to be a brief stop becomes a trap of destiny when a snowstorm isolates him from the world. In the solitude of the mountains, Joel will live with characters as fascinating as they are disturbing.

A gem edition with unreleased material

Originally handwritten with a fountain pen in 2003, this young adult novel recaptures the "craftsmanship romanticism" of Francesc Miralles' beginnings. This edition by Batidora Ediciones includes an unreleased prologue where the author reflects, two decades later, on the archaeology of his own writing and the desire to travel that has always possessed him.

Rereading a novel written 23 years ago is like doing archaeology on yourself... Joel has a lot of my teenage self in him. — Francesc Miralles

El libro del invierno is not just a search for a lost manuscript; it is the discovery that beneath apparent chaos there is an infinite order, and that the most important journey is the one we make within ourselves.