So, thank you booksellers and readers for the confidence. Three years topping sales for Sant Jordi is a gift that not even the most ambitious can dream of.
Another satisfaction is that our translations have helped the Catalan language, through bestsellers, such as La petita història dels tractors en ucraïnès, Wonder, L'alegria de viure or L'avi de 100 anys and L'analfabeta, which even surpassed sales in Spanish here. I look back and I'm surprised to see so many books and authors: from Terricabras to Cardús via Xavier Roig (Ni som ni serem, La dictadura de la incompetència), Joan Barril (Un submarí a les estovalles), Porta (Tor), Gabancho (El segle XX a través de les àvies) or Sánchez Piñol (La pell freda and Victus) and Carles Capdevila (Criatura i companyia). It won the Ojo Crítico Narrativa prize in 2002, and has been translated into 37 languages.I never imagined La Campana would last 30 years. Although the Irishman first thinks that the monsters are evil and murderous, after meeting Aneris, he changes his mind. After some days, he finds out that Caffo has sex with a domesticated monster, the female Aneris. Through his cunning he manages to stay in the lighthouse with Caffo, and thus he can withstand attacks from the big frogs. So the hero has to spend a night alone, where he suffers the attack of strange monsters that are similar to frogs. On this island there is only one inhabitant, the signals official Batis Caffo, who does not help the Irishman, and hides all the information which he has on the island. He accepts a job offer as a weather official on a remote island in the south Atlantic close to the Antarctic Circle. The novel chronicles the story of a former fighter for the independence of Ireland who, unmotivated by the events of the Western World, decides to escape from the society in which he lives. More than 150,000 copies of its original edition were sold. The novel has had numerous reprints and has been translated into 37 languages. Catalan La pell freda) is the debut novel by Catalan author Albert Sánchez Piñol.
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