Where the Rivers Meet: Jesus MoncadaJess Moncada (1941 2005) was one of the key figures in Catalan literature at the end of the twentieth century, witnessed by the reception of his work both by the public and the critics. His writing has been translated into over twenty languages and won several important literary prizes. His first novel, published in English as The Towpath by HarperCollins in 1994, is regarded as one of the finest examples of contemporary Catalan writing. Where the

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was a finalist in the People’s Book Prize in 2010

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and Nihad Sirees’s A State of Passion – an enthralling saga of life among the marginalised in 1930s Syria

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