What if you actually made progress in Catalan by reading a masterpiece — no dictionary, no effort, no giving up?

This book is a bilingual edition: it contains the complete novel in Catalan AND in English, together in the same volume. You read Catalan; English is right there to help you.

Why a bilingual book? Unlike apps and textbooks, you learn with a real story that makes you want to turn the page. It is the most natural immersion method there is.

— THE METHOD —

Ordinary bilingual editions make you lose the thread: the Catalan text on the left, the English text on the right, and your eyes darting back and forth hunting for the right line. The result: you give up in the first few pages.

Polyglot Publishing invented something else: synchronised line-by-line alternation. Every sentence in Catalan is immediately followed by its English translation — like subtitles, but on paper.

• Understand everything, instantly — the meaning of each word is checked at a glance, with no dictionary and no phone
• Improve without noticing — your brain links the two languages unconsciously, sentence after sentence, and Catalan grammar sinks in naturally
• Learn Catalan by finally reading what you love — a real novel, not textbook dialogue

Suitable for every level: the translation helps when you need it — and never gets in the way of your reading.

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— THE BOOK —

M. on the Aragon front.

He describes the cold, the lice, the boredom of the trenches and the strange equality of a revolutionary army. Back in Barcelona, he witnesses the street fighting of May 1937 and the purge that turns his own side into outlaws. Wounded in the throat, he leaves Spain hunted by the police of the government he came to defend. A first-hand account of a war within the war — and of how the truth about it was rewritten before it was even over.

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