I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Solà, Irene

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands,...
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Author: Irene Solà
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Solà, Irene

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

$26.06

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

$26.06
Author: Irene Solà
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

As day turns to night, four hundred years' worth of stories unspool, and the house reverberates with raucous laughter, pungent feasts, and piercing cries of pleasure and pain. It all begins with Joana, Mas Clavell's matriarch, who once longed for a husband--"a full man," perhaps even "an heir with a patch of land and a roof over his head." She summoned the devil to fulfill her wish and struck a deal: a man in exchange for her soul. But when, on her wedding day, Joana discovered that her husband was missing a toe (eaten by wolves), she exploited a loophole in her agreement, heedless of what consequences might follow.

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is an audacious and entrancing novel in which the lines between the dead and the living, past and present, story and history are blurred. In it, Irene Solà draws on oral tradition as well as art, literature, and fairy tales to tell a completely new kind of story.

Author: Irene Solà
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 06/17/2025
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.62w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781644453438


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/14/2025
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2025
Foreword 06/22/2025
Booklist 06/10/2025

About the Author

Irene Solà is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of the novels The Dams, When I Sing, Mountains Dance, and I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, and Beast, a poetry collection.

Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator and author of the novel A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small. Her recent translations include books by Patricio Pron, Max Besora, Javier Calvo, Marta Orriols, Toni Sala, and Alicia Kopf.

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