When I Sing, Mountains Dance eugenides Daniele is a young poet

Daniele is a young poet plagued by an unknown darkness

briny sea air

a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with

everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition

who know exactly where they stand on the issue of boys

When I Sing, Mountains Dance eugenides Daniele is a young poetA lyrical, genre defying novel that weaves together myth, memory, and multiple voices to tell the story of a Catalan mountain village shaped by nature, history, and grief. At the center is the sudden death of a young poet, Domnec, struck by lightning while walking in the Pyrenees. But the novel isnt told just through human eyesinstead, it unfolds through a dazzling chorus of narrators: the poets family, ghosts, neighbors, animals, even the mountains