Where the Dead and the Living Meet

In I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, Irene Solà writes about family, death, myths, and pacts through several generations of women who, for better or worse, are left to fend for themselves on a Catalan mountain farm. Weronika Murek explores the possibilities and absurdities of everyday language in the stories in Growing Southern Plants the Michurin Method, where the dead and the living coexist in a dreamlike universe. Beneath it all runs a smoldering backdrop of the fall of communism, the fast‑paced capitalism of the 1990s, dysfunctional family dynamics, and wavering traditions. Together, they lead us into a literary space where the magical and the real flow into one another, inviting reflection on belonging, inheritance, and the unsayable.