English translation © 2015 Peter Roland Bush
Originally published as La vida amarga by Ediciones Destino, 1967 Barcelona
Copyright © heirs of Josep Pla, 1967

First Archipelago Books edition, 2015

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or retransmitted in any form without prior written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pla, Josep, 1897-1981, author.
[Vida amarga. English.]
Life embitters / Josep Pla; translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush. – First Archipelago Books Edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-914671-13-8 – ISBN 978-0-914671-14-5
I. Bush, Peter R., 1946- translator. II. Title.
PC3941.P54V5313 2015
849’.8352–dc23        2014035214

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Cover art by Perico Pastor

This publication was made possible with generous support from the Institut Ramon Llull, Lannan Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency.

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