Wild Horses

Jordi Cussà burst into the Catalan narrative with Cavalls salvatges (2000), a novel that surprised critics and readers alike with its faithful portrayal of a marginal world -that of addiction to hard drugs- little focused by Catalan writers.

The novel, which narrates in a choral way the adventures and misadventures of a group of friends who are dedicated to the trafficking and consumption of heroin and other narcotics in Catalonia in the eighties and nineties, is a disturbing, agile and poetic tale of «the generation of suckers», in the words of its protagonist. A generation that galloped between ecstasy and hell until addiction, or AIDS, cut short their lives and found in Jordi Cussà, one of its survivors, the best possible chronicler.
 

A cult work of Catalan literature for its faithful portrait of a marginal world and for its stylistic innovations.