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  • LA PLACE DU DIAMANT
    RODOREDA, MERCÉ
    « Sans travail, sans rien en vue, j'ai fini de vendre ce qui me restait : mon lit de jeune fille, le matelas du lit aux colonnes, la montre de Quimet que je voulais donner à Antoni lorsqu'il serait grand. Tout le linge. Les coupes, les tasses, le buffet... Et quand il ne me restait rien en dehors de ces monnaies qui me semblaient sacrées, j'ai fait taire ma fierté et je suis al...
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  • TANT ET TANT DE GUERRE
    RODOREDA, MERCE
    Tant et tant de guerre est né à la suite d'une exposition des photos du film Le manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse. Je me demandais si je ne pourrais pas faire un roman qui parviendrait au même degré de poésie et de mystère. Il me fallait créer un personnage et le laisser courir le monde. Ce serait un garçon ayant encore du lait sur les lèvres et qui, comme les poètes, s'extasierait ...
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  • JOURNEYS AND FLOWERS
    RODOREDA, MERCE
    A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys andflowers. ...
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  • IN DIAMOND SQUARE
    RODOREDA, MERCE
    First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. It has previously been published in English as The Time of the Doves.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 Dia...
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  • DEATH IN SPRING
    RODOREDA,MERCE
    Death in Spring is 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.Oft...
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  • ALOMA
    RODOREDA, MERCÈ
    Aloma, editada inicialment el 1938, és la novel·la que enllaça les produccions de preguerra i de postguerra de Mercè Rodoreda. És l'únic títol de la seva primera etapa que l'escriptora va reconèixer, i la versió revisada de 1969 ?la definitiva i que, per tant, s'ofereix aquí? permet observar l'evolució de l'autora i comprendre millor el conjunt de la seva obra.Neus Real, profes...
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  • LA PLAÇA DEL DIAMANT
    RODOREDA GURGUÍ, MERCÈ
    La Plaça del Diamant és una novel·la apassionant i ambiciosa. Poques vegades s'ha escrit en la nostra llengua amb una poeticitat tan senzilla i amb una ironia tan dramàtica. Natàlia, la protagonista, ens explica la seua vida marcada per l'opressió i la necessitat d'alliberar-se'n. Una història individual que es transforma en imatge d'una època agitada. Potser per això, i pel se...
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  • MIRALL TRENCAT
    RODOREDA, MERCÈ
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  • ALOMA- FRANCÈS
    RODOREDA, MERCÈ
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  • A BROKEN MIRROR
    MERCÈ RODOREDA
    A haunting classic of modern Catalan literature from one of Spain's most prestigious writers.Extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War, A Broken Mirror traces three generations of a burgeoning aristocratic family at the turn of the 19th century.When Salvador Valldaura first meets Teresa Goday he is se...
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  • WAR, SO MUCH WAR
    RODOREDA, MERCÈ
    Merce Rodoreda's final novel is a meditation on the consequences of moral degradation and the inescapable presence of evil.Despite its title, there is little of war and much of the fantastic in this coming-of-age story, which was the last novel Merce Rodoreda published during her lifetime.We first meet its young protagonist, Adria Guinart, as he is leaving Barcelona out of bore...
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  • THE SELECTED STORIES
    RODOREDA, MERCE
    Collected here are thirty-one of Merce Rodoreda's most moving and challenging stories, presented in chronological order of their publication from three of Rodoreda's most beloved short story collections: Twenty-Two Stories, It Seemed Like Silk and Other Stories, and My Christina and Other Stories. These stories capture Rodoreda's full range of expression, from quiet literary re...
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