the writer Marion Masferrersecond prize Montserrat Roig per ‘Out of time letters‘ and the author of ‘Ariadne’s thread‘, publish now ‘Salt and seagulls‘, a novel about the history of The Scale“different” from that of most coastal populations in theEmporda. In an interview with Efe before officially presenting the book in this locality of the Costa BravaMasferrer says that the town’s past is far from the millennial legacy that the ruins of Empúries and its Greco-Roman remains. The core of Saint Martin d’Empúries also has a medieval history, like a good part of the towns of the Empordà, but the bulk of which today is L’Escala is limited to the last four centuries or so.
“It was a cove in Sant Martí d’Empúries and the first settlers did not arrive until the 17th century, people from Rosselló that at that time they became French, they put a lot of taxes on them with the change and they chose to go a little lower”, he details. Her father was born in L’Escala and she had always been attracted to this story “built with people from different parts, also later from Tortoise in the rice season”. This arrival modulated even the accent, different from that of the rest of the neighbors, since it came from the south of Catalonia and, now, he has decided to novelize it all and claim these differential features, among them the fact that “the towns of this area have their strong core in the interior, while here it is on the same coast”.
In addition, its port is facing the wind of Tramuntana“a bad choice, but there has always been a lot of prosperity” thanks to these people arriving from different places, to the point of turning the municipality centuries ago “into a kind of ‘Far West‘». “It is a town made up of many emigrants”, he said, a “sum of anecdotes” that he has been collecting with the help of the local archive, which has lent him photographs that illustrate the book. She summered there, she also spent four years in which she left her home in Barcelona and, now, she hopes that the neighbors will gladly welcome ‘Sal i gavians’, which describes “a town that has always reinvented itself, as it happened in the Bourbon era, when salt customs were established and one was built in L’Escala, in what is now theAlfoli». The novel is published “for now” in Catalan with the publisher’s seal Brau.