In Diamond Square: A Virago Modern Classic

ISBN-13: 9781844087372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Merce Rodoreda

Opis

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, and lays waste to the city and to their simple existence. 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. A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more twenty-eight languages, 'In Diamond Square' is the moving, vivid and powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.

Recenzje

I don't know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the novel Gabriel Garcia Marquez

O autorze

Mercè Rodoreda, die Schriftstellerin der modernen katalanischen Literatur, wurde 1908 in Barcelona geboren. Ihre ersten Bücher erschienen bereits in den dreißiger Jahren, darunter ein mit dem Preis Crexells ausgezeichnete Roman. Dann begann ein fast zwanzigjähriges Schweigen: Mercè Rodoreda ging, wie viele republikanische Katalanen, ins Exil nach Paris, bis sie vor den deutschen Truppen in den unbesetzten Teil Frankreichs floh und schließlich nach Genf zog, wo sie als Übersetzerin für die Unesco arbeitete und wieder zu schreiben begann.