A wonderful and universally appealing adventure story, with the classic air of a traditional spoken story and a real flair for language. 'Junil a les terres dels bàrbars' ('Junil in the land of the Barbarians') is set at the start of the Christian era and tells the story of Junil, who works glueing together sheets of papyrus in her father's bookshop until his death, and her subsequent escape from the borders of the Empire to the lands beyond. In the company of some fugitive slaves, she sets off on foot from mainland Europe and learns to navigate a world full of different gods and languages. But she doesn't flee just to escape the punishment that awaits her for allegedly killing her father, but also due to the irresistible attraction of the verses of an exiled poet, which will fuel her every day. By one of the most iconic, widely-read and admired Catalan-language authors, who has many prizes to his name. A contemporary classic by Joan-Lluís Lluís