The Nordic Company

Spring of 1837, in the first Carlist War, incredible events shake the severe mountains of the Pyrenees.

In 1997, when Albert Villaró was municipal archivist of La Seu, he received from the hands of the widow of an antique collector mason the diary of Ulrich von Wilamovitz, a Prussian violinist and botanist who participated in the First Carlist War. The notebook describes the incredible events that took place during the terrible spring of 1837 and that the soldier's unique traveling companions lived with him: Osinalde, a liberal doctor; the enigmatic Mina, the young woman who serves as their guide; and Father Cebrià, a monk who escaped from the Montserrat monastery.
La Companyia Nòrdica (The Nordic Company) is a fantastic and surprising novel, tinged with humor and action, where science and the darkest arcana share a unique setting, haunting and full of beauty: the harsh mountains of the Pyrenees.

Albert Villaró consolidates with this novel as one of the most original and solid voices of current Catalan narrative.
 

Wild nature, magic and mystery come together in the incredible story of a soldier during the First Carlist War.