Voices of the Old Sea

After WW II Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. VOICES OF THE OLD SEA describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolves around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade's bar and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages.

It's lucky Lewis was there when he was. Reason is that Spain was being discovered by its neighbors in a more prosperous northern Europe, and the tourist tide flowed inexorably over the old ways of the town and its inhabitants. Today, without these recollections, they would be dead and beyond recall.

"Norman Lewis has caught the helpless, unwitting, often foolish but always hopeful village in its dying summers, and saved the tragedy with sublime comedy."

Author: Norman Lewis

Publisher: Eland

Released Date: 2013

ISBN: 9781906011611