"My Christina & Other Stories
Years after her death, Merce Rodoreda's work is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and style, from the hallucinatory to the bleakly realistic, from tales of tenderness and love to stories t[...]
The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a naive shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsive period in history. The book has been widely translated, and was made into a film.
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Barcelona, early 1930s: 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[...]
Barcelona, early 1930s: 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[...]
Den unga och fattiga flickan Natàlia arbetar som butiksbiträde i 30-talets Barcelona när hon på en utomhusbal på Diamanttorget träffar snickaren och drömmaren Quimet. De förälskar sig, gifter sig och får barn. Men parets tillvaro trasas snart sönder när inbördeskriget bryter [...]
Den unga och fattiga flickan Natàlia arbetar som butiksbiträde i 30-talets Barcelona när hon på en utomhusbal på Diamanttorget träffar snickaren och drömmaren Quimet. De förälskar sig, gifter sig och får barn. Men parets tillvaro trasas snart sönder när inbördeskriget bryter ut och [...]