{"product_id":"when-i-sing-mountains-dance","title":"When I Sing  Mountains Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003eNear a village high in the Pyrenees  Domnec 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 Domnec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him  taking up the chanterelles hed 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 as Mias lovers with their long-buried secrets and their hidden pain.  Irene Sol animates the polyphonic world around us  the fierce music of the seasons  as well as the stories we tell to comprehend loss and love on a personal  historical  and even geological scale. Lyrical  elemental  and mythic  hers is a fearlessly imaginative new voice that brilliantly renders both our tragedies and our triumphs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974411579445,"sku":"ByrdShop_1783787147","price":228.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781783787142_c5cd3c26-7b2b-4313-ab13-cfebaee1c762.jpg?v=1772670662","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/when-i-sing-mountains-dance","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}