Guasch’s prose, translated from his native Catalan, allows for bleak beauty amidst the destruction—the poetry of floods, an exhausted mine, the silence of extinction.
Guasch portrays the relationship between Líton and Rita with real tenderness; their bond is steadfast, and perhaps the only thing keeping both of them from absolute despair. This seems certain to go down as one of the greatest, most perceptive novels about friendship to be published in recent years. Heartbreaking and true: a major achievement from a young writer.
