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Author: Mercè Rodoreda
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781934824313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty one of Merce Rodoreda's most moving and challenging stories which capture his full range of expression. Moving from quiet literary realism to fragmentary impressionism to dark symbolism, Rodoreda captures the lives of women who are stuck between senseless modernity and suffocating tradition.
Author: Mercè Rodoreda
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1934824119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMerce Rodoreda depicts the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood-through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate.
Author: Mercè Rodoreda
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mercè Rodoreda
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 1986-10-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780915308750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Time of the Doves - by Mercè Rodoreda - is the powerfully written story of a naïve 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.
Author: Mercè Rodoreda
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781948830089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War
Author: Mercè Rodoreda
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781940953229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdri Guinart is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for freedom, embarking on a long journey through the backwaters of a rural land that one can only suppose is Catalonia, accompanied by the interminable, distant rumblings of an indefinable war. In vignette-like chapters and with a narrative style imbued with the fantastic, Guinart meets with numerous peculiar characters who offer him a composite, if surrealistic, view of an impoverished, war-ravaged society and shape his perception of his place in the world.
Author: Mercè Rodoreda
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the war-torn, disoriented Barcelona of the 1940s and 1950s, Cecélia displays strength in the face of male brutality.
Author: Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0241390524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and Leopoldo Alas, through Mercè Rodoreda and Manuel Rivas, to Ana Maria Matute and Javier Marías. Brimming with romance, horror, history, farce, strangeness and beauty, and showcasing alluring hairdressers, war defectors, vampiric mothers, and talismanic mandrake roots, the daring and entertaining assortment of tales in The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories will be a treasure trove for readers.
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Waguih Ghali
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Published: 1999-11-02
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1461663245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaguih Ghali was raised in Cairo but spent much of his adult life studying and working in Europe. In Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali chronicles the lives of Cairo's upper crust who, after the fall of King Farouk, are thoroughly unprepared to change its neo-feudal ways. Beer in the Snooker Club was the only book written by Ghali before his suicide in 1968. "Ghali's novel reproduces a cultural state of shock with great accuracy and great humor."–James Marcus of The Nation
