Author Description

A Mediterranean Love Story is a teenagers' love story during a dictatorship epoch where the relationships between children were nearly impossible out of the official engagement. A story where the class hatred, the sexual repression, the freedom, the political persecution, the women's liberation, or simply the natural love, live together, in front of the sensitive presence of the landscape, the wish of escaping from home towards distant countries. All that is lived by two teenagers, Sergi and Maria, who were not ready for a so socially conditioned life, like that one of the 60th, while the Beatles sang about freedom... Joan Pla is a teacher and a Catalan writer. He studied Economic Sciences in Barcelona and Teaching Studies. He has written about adventures, fiction, love, thriller, mystery stories and tales for children, young and old people. His first novel, A mediterranean love story, is a bestseller from the 80s. He has written a second part: Only the sea will speak to us of love. He has received a great amount of literary awards and public recognitions. Amongst his important novels he emphasizes The violinist of Paris, The Pharaoh's island, The time doesn't go by in Montmartre, and fifty more...