Author(s): Jordi Llavina ; Douglas Suttle

Short Stories | Spain | Translated fiction

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.

'Llavina exhibits his great ability to successfully penetrate our psyches.'
Lluis Muntada, El Pais

'Presided over by tenderness and truth, Jordi Llavina's stories are beautiful, cathartic masterpieces.'
Anna M. Gil, La Vanguardia

'The narrative fabric of these stories is the voice - sensitive, powerful, complicated and dedicated - that Llavina creates for each of us. Almost personal, he whispers gently in our ears.'
Ramon Pla i Arxe, La Vanguardia

Author Biography:

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 Penedes, 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.