LIFE EMBITTERS

Life Embitters is Pla's Pandora's box of surprises, flitting with melancholic irony from one end of the continent to the short story . He collects encounters from the streets of pre-Depression Europe: rogues and strays in boarding houses in Barcelona, a Parisian ca fé owner addicted to gambling on hourses, exiles struggling to survive in a Berlin struck by hyperinflation and the rise of Nazism, a Greek shipping agent fond of frogs, a flaneur in St. James Park whose pleasure at the sight of sparrows enjoying a morning tryst s oon turns...[Read more]