اورديسا

After many years, Manuel Vilas returns to the Valley of Ordesa, where he recalls his father, mother, and ancestors, and follows their footsteps, guided by love, making them music and beauty, "because literature is meaningless as long as it is devoid of love." In Ordesa, poetry blends with narration, reality with imagination, and autobiography with the story of the place. We see the author exploring the material of life and telling stories, because for him life is the narration of a story. The New York Times described this novel as "a storm of the soul and a mirage of ghosts." Ordesa has been translated into dozens of languages, chosen as the book of the year in Spain, and won the Femina Prize in the translated literature category. It also made the short list for the Medici Prize and won the Best Foreign Book Award in France in 2019. Manuel Vilas: a novelist and poet from Spain. He has received many prestigious literary awards. His novel Ordesa was considered an unclassifiable literary phenomenon and achieved unprecedented success in its original language and in other languages into which it was translated.