Les hores noves

The new hours is a bright and vital book. He talks about plants, crops and animals, about people who still live off the land and the forest, about mountains and streams, about empty and inhabited farmhouses, about atmospheric phenomena and the changes that occur in the landscape over the course of a year , from the first rain in September to the heat of a summer with a risk of fire. It takes as reference Josep Pla's book The Hours, from 1953, and adapts it to a changing environment in which many of us have lost our relationship with nature. In a couple of generations, the extensive introduction of urban mentality has transformed the way of being in the world. Julià Guillamon observes, explains, converses with a former coal miner or with a group of Portuguese cork peelers. Find new ways to name and describe the lily, the camellia and the steppe flower, the movement of a dragonfly that has entered the house, the modern mowing, with large John Deere tractors. And relive the story of Emili Soms, the man who has recovered more than fifty apple varieties lost in the Arbúcies valley. The world may not be as we would like, but what we have is of immense value.