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  title info:
    title: Salt water
  title info:
    title: Works. Selections. English. 2020
  name:
    name part: Pla, Josep
    name part: 1897-1981
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bush, Peter R.
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First Archipelago books edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: cat
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 454 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers. Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla's foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy storytellers and the fishy meals that sustain them. After describing the process of beating an octopus with branches to soften up its flesh, Pla writes "These are dishes that must be seen as a last resort." Pla inflects the mundane with the hidden rhythms of power sculpting culture, so that a hot supper is never just food. It embodies economic precarity and environmental erosion along with its own peculiar flavor. A lifetime of reporting on current events gave Pla the necessary skills to describe the world in all its gritty, funny, invigorating detail.
  table of contents: Preface -- A frustrated voyage -- One from Begur -- Bread and grapes -- Out to sea -- Smuggling -- Still life with fish -- Coral and coral divers -- Shipwrecks: a reportage -- On the rocks -- The sinking of the Cala Galiota: conversations with Dalí the painter's father.
  note: Josep Pla ; translated from Catalan by Peter Bush.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pla, Josep
      name part: 1897-1981
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Catalan
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PC3941.P54 A2 2020
  classification: 849.985209
  identifier: 1939810728
  identifier: 9781939810724
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200221
    record change date: 20210422122451.0
    record identifier: in00004438919