Martí Sales. Born on Carrer de l’Or in Barcelona the year before the first Aplec del Cargol (Snail Festival) in Lleida, Martí Sales was raised on galetes d’Inca (typical Majorcan crackers). As a boy he wasn’t the least bit interested in food and his parents had to work their fingers to the bone to ensure he didn’t wither away. At the age of eight his favorite dish was lamb and rice. As he grew up, he fell in love with eggplant, artichokes, capipota (a stew of veal head and hocks), oxtail, anchovies, and mole. He has planted calçots (Catalan green onions). He has eaten woodcock twice. The only things he can’t swallow—to date—are liver and oysters. This is his sixth book, which follows The Zipper (2016), Uncertainty Principle (2015), Now Is the Time (2011), Happy Days in Prison (2008) and Huckleberry Finn (2006).
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