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When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Dom?nec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to ?reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.? He gathers black chanterelles, attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Dom?nec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he?d harvested before going on their merry ways. 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.When I Sing, Mountains Dance, winner of the European Union Prize, is a giddy paean to the land in all its interconnectedness, and in it Sola finds a distinct voice for each extraordinary consciousness: the lightning bolts, roe deer, mountains, the ghosts of the civil war, the widow Si? and later her grown children, Hilari and Mia, as well