Description

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London Under Snow is a delicate, compact, mature and profound collection of short stories about winter by Jordi Llavina. Six fragments of different lives in six different moments. In this beautifully written collection, the characters come face to face with their different lives and pasts, all of which are full of ghosts and memories. Sensibility courses through each story, all of them written with a meticulous eye to detail and a careful lyricism that pays tribute to the human condition and the society that we have created.

Bringing winter and Christmas celebrations in a variety of places and cultures to life in a selection of beautifully written short stories, Llavina mixes personal experiences with fictional characters to blur the lines between fiction and reality.

About the Author

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Jordi Llavina is an award-winning writer, poet, broadcaster, and critic who has published over ten books in his long and distinguished career. Living and working in Vilafranca del Penedès, close to Barcelona, he has won numerous prizes for both his poetry and his prose, including the prestigious Lletra d'Or in 2019 for his long poem, The Hermitage. 

Douglas Suttle is a writer, translator and editor based in Catalonia. As well as writing for several newspapers and magazines throughout Europe, he translates to and from Catalan and English for a number of publishing houses and has collaborated with various governmental agencies in the promotion of Catalan language. In addition to his English-language work, in 2021 his verse translation of Beowulf will be published in Catalan.

Praise For…

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“In London Under Snow, Llavina recreates the most delicate and intimate aspects of life with great success.”—Sam Abrams, Diari Ara
 
“More than logical reason, it is only through emotional communication with the world that we can reach the truth. And, so as to reach this truth, we have at our disposal the written word. This is the Nietzschean idea that permeates the poetry and narrative of Jordi Llavina.”—Anna M. Gil, La Vanguardia
 
“What is really admirable in this text is the truly original, fresh way these stories are told.”—Ramon Pla i Arxé, El Temps