A spellbinding novel that places one family\'s tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
So begins this novel that is as much about the Mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst..
The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he\'d harvested before going on their merry ways.
He dies.
Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec.
And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power.
He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow.
Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.
A spellbinding novel that places one family\'s tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself
