Death in Spring (Penguin European Writers) de Mercè Rodoreda

Death in Spring: Penguin European Writers, cartea 1

Mercè Rodoreda

Martha Tennent

Colm Tóibín

'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tóibín, from the introduction

'Dark and beautiful and brilliant'Sarah Moss, author ofGhost Wall

Death in Springis a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity.

Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship,Death in Springis a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence.

'Rodoreda has bedazzled me' Gabriel Garcia Marquez

'Rodoreda's artistry is of the highest order' Diana Athill

'Read it for its beauty, for the way it will surprise and subvert your desires, and as a testament to the human spirit in the face of brutality and willful inhumanity.' Jesmyn Ward, author ofSing, Unburied, Sing

'Utterly extraordinary' Claire-Louise Bennett, author ofPond

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Mercè Rodoreda was born in Barcelona in 1908. During the Spanish Civil War she was exiled to France and later Switzerland. Rodoreda was only able to return to Barcelona in the mid-1960s, where she wrote several prize-winning novels in Catalan, including Death in Spring, which was inspired by her experience of Franco's dictatorship. Rodoreda died in 1983, a few years before Death in Spring's first publication, and is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century.

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Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece
Mercè Rodoreda's artistry is of the highest order
Dark and beautiful and brilliant
Rodoreda has bedazzled me
Read it for its beauty,for the way it will surprise and subvert your desires, and asa testament to the human spiritin the face of brutality and willful inhumanity
Utterly extraordinary- I have had few reading experiences like it - it'sas if one is unravelling a terrible yet irresistible secret, the secret of death
The greatest contemporary Catalan novelist and possiblythe best Mediterranean woman author since Sappho
A heartbreaking, unforgettable read.One of the most important literary works from the second half of the 20th century
It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped. . . . She's on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die.Tremendous, tremendous writer
One of the most radical works from the past century
The novel issuspenseful,pushing the reader through the images, memories, and voices that flow within the protagonist's often confused mind as he develops into manhood. Just as the unnamed protagonist must navigate a world of contradictions,the novel reflects Rodoreda's own political, social, and literary exile while speaking of a tyranny that feels almost uncanny in its incantation
Mercè Rodoreda is not just one of the most accomplished post-war Catalan authors; she is also widely considered, notably by Gabriel García Márquez, to bethe greatest Spanish writer of the 20th century
We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times

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