Less than a year ago I reviewed a novel by Catalan author Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983) who is much celebrated in her country but virtually unknown elsewhere. I was so impressed by the book that I felt like reading also others of her works and from the two novels published posthumously, both of them un...
Stream of conscious writing by a woman before, during and after the Spanish Civil War. Highly acclaimed and beautiful writing. How one woman experienced this war.
Being quite ignorant on Spanish literature, I appreciated a lot the tip of one of my customers when I was a part time temporary bookseller. Mercè Rodoreda's novel made me discover better a very important and dramatic chapter of Spanish recent history: the Civil War between Republicans and Nationalis...
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