Joan Sales

Winds of the Night

Translated from the Catalan by
Peter Bush

With an afterword by
Paul Preston

First published in the Catalan language as El vent de la nit by Club Editor in 1983
First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

MacLehose Press
an imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd
Carmelite House
50 Victoria Embankment
London EC4Y 0DZ

Copyright © Núria Sales Folch 2017
Afterword © Paul Preston
English translation copyright © Peter Bush 2017

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Institut Ramon Llull

The moral right of Joan Sales to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

EBOOK ISBN 978 0 85705 618 4

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Also by Joan Sales in English translation

Uncertain Glory (2014)

Quant à moi, je serais bien content
si un jour on venait à prétendre
qu’Henri Bergson n’a pas existé.

HENRI BERGSON

In Memoriam
Juan Goytisolo 1931–2017