"The novel's folk tales, with their scent of cruelty, linger in the mind, as do the icy, unforgiving vistas below . . . It's this sense of place that gives Solitude its power."--New York Times

"The seamless translation faithfully illuminates the lucid, brilliant prose of this Catalan author."--Publishers Weekly on Solitude

"I swallowed the words as if swallowing the mighty, varied, inextinguishable sound of a solo like Duke Ellington's; and on every page I was tempted to stop, to laugh heartily with all my throat and clap. I had never read anything in Catalan that made me so euphoric."--Maria Bohigas

"From a perfectly assumed cultural position, with a clear literary consciousness and challenging boldness (the dignification of popular cultural consumption), Víctor Català offers us a mature work, which in his time could not be appreciated."--Lluís Busquets, Diari de Girona