01880nam a2200409u 4500 819521109 OCoLC 20190501224433.0 ta 160315s2013 enk 000 f eng d 2013414564 GBB2B7682 bnb 016215659 Uk 9781844088959 (hbk.) 1844088952 (hbk.) 9781844089253 (pbk.) 1844089258 (pbk.) (OCoLC)819521109 UKMGB eng rda UKMGB OCLCO YDXCP YNK NDD OCLCQ DLC OCLCF VP@ OCLCO NSELP MLN eng cat e-sp--- MLNM PC3941.R57 P513 2013 849.936 23 Rodoreda, Merc,̈ 1908-1983. Plaȧ del diamant. English In Diamond Square by Merc ̈Rodoreda ; translated from Catalan by Peter Bush. London : Virago, 2013. xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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 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. Translated from the Catalan. Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Fiction. 2 21517 21517 0 0 ABELJ abelj AF 2017-01-11 0 RODO 35920 2017-01-11 14.99 2017-01-11 BOOK