Rodoreda, Merc,̈ 1908-1983 creator text novel enk London Virago 2013 monographic eng cat

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xiii, 206 pages ; 24 cm 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. by Merc ̈Rodoreda ; translated from Catalan by Peter Bush. Translated from the Catalan. e-sp--- Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Fiction PC3941.R57 P513 2013 849.936 9781844088959 (hbk.) 1844088952 (hbk.) 9781844089253 (pbk.) 1844089258 (pbk.) 2013414564 UKMGB 160315 20190501224433.0 819521109 eng