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Jan 1, 1908 — Jan 1, 1983· 75 yrs

SPAIN AUTHOR · FICTION

Mercè Rodoreda

8
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Barcelona, Spain
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Death in Spring

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"Death in Spring tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town--burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town--through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate"--

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The selected stories of Mercè Rodoreda

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Contains thirty short fiction stories selected from three previously published collections in which Mercè Rodoreda explores the lives of women stuck between modernity and tradition.

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In diamond square

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Natalia, a pretty shop girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts; Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one his beloved birds fly away...

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