Les dones de la Principal is the first novel by Lluís Llach to be translated into German. It was published in March 2016 by Suhrkamp Verlag, with a translation by Petra Zickmann. In Catalonia in 2014 it saw Lluís Llach back in bookshops after the success of his literary debut, Memòria d’uns ulls pintats (Memoir of Painted Eyes). The novel is a look at winemaking in Catalonia from the late 19^th to the 21^st century told through the story of three generations of women – grandmother, mother and daughter – who run La Principal, the most notable mansion in a small village in the district of L’Abadia. The family’s good work making the vines prosper will be marred by the mysterious murder of the estate foreman, just before the start of the Civil War, a crime that a police inspector decides to solve.