Merc Rodoreda - Böcker

Krossad spegel är historien om ett samhälles politiska och sociala förändring. Förändringarna speglas i en familjs, och framförallt en kvinnas, Teresa Goday de Valladauras, liv i Spanien från sekelskiftet fram till 1930-talet. Teresa kommer från e...

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I en icke namngiven by lever ett namnlöst folk med arkaiska seder och grymma ritualer. Berättarjaget är en fjortonårig pojke, vars mor har dött, som beskriver sin omvärld med alla dess brutala inslag. Pojkens mamma hade för vana att stå och skrika...

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'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm Tibn, from the introduction 'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy&...

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Collected here are thirty-one of Merc Rodoredas most moving and challenging stories, presented in chronological order of their publication from three of Rodoredas most beloved short story collections.

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'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.' Colm T ib n, from the introduction'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in ...

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In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merce Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming tog...

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The Time of the Doves - by Merce Rodoreda - is the powerfully written story of a naive 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. Th...

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'A small masterpiece' Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph'I don't know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the novel' Gabriel Garcia Marquez'The fierce beauty o...

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'A small masterpiece' Colm Toibin, Daily Telegraph 'I don't know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the novel' Gabriel Garcia M...

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Musical and rhythmic, Death relates the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town 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 tee...

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"e;The humor in the stories, as well as their thrill of realism, comes from a Nabokovian precision of observation and transformation of plain experience into enchanting prose."e;Los Angeles TimesCollected here are thirty-one of Merce Rodor...

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Mercè Rodoreda's final novel, this is a meditation on the consequences of moral degradation and the inescapable presence of evil.

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Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "e;Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015"e;"e;Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels."e;Gabriel Garca Marquez"e;Rodoreda pl...

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Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's masterpiece is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals-almost like Franco's Spain.

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A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War

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I en icke namngiven by lever ett namnlöst folk med arkaiska seder och grymma ritualer. Berättarjaget är en fjortonårig pojke, vars mor har dött, som beskriver sin omvärld med alla dess brutala inslag. Pojkens mamma hade för vana att stå och skrika...

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Del sju: Palmserien. Krossad spegel är historien om ett samhälles politiska och sociala förändring. Förändringarna speglas i en familjs, och framförallt en kvinnas, Teresa Goday de Valladauras, liv i Spanien från sekelskiftet fram till 1930-talet....

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