Merce Rodoreda, Author, Josep Miquel Sobrer, Translator University of Nebraska Press $49.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3963-0
The works of Catalan writer Rodoreda (The Time of the Doves) are difficult to find in English, and this translation will be particularly welcome to readers of Spanish and European literature. Set in Barcelona, this family saga spans six decades,...
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Mercè Rodoreda, trans. from the Catalan by Maruxa Relano and Martha Tennent. Open Letter (openletterbooks.org), $13.95 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-1-940953-22-9
Often considered the most important Catalan novelist of the 20th century, Rodoreda (Death in Spring) explores life during the Spanish Civil War in a unique coming-of-age story. Feeling suffocated living at home with his parents in Barcelona, Adrià...
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Merce Rodoreda, Author, Martha Tennent, Translator , trans. from the Catalan by Martha Tennent. Open Letter $14.95 (150p) ISBN 978-1-934824-11-5
Exiled after the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda (1908–1993) worked on this marvelously disturbing novel over a 20-year period, and its first publication was posthumous. As macabre as a Grimm fairy tale, the novel portrays the cruel customs of an...
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Mercè Rodoreda, trans. from the Catalan by Martha Tennent, Open Letter (Univ. of Nebraska, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-934824-31-3
Rodoreda (Death in Spring) died at age 75 in 1983, and these passionate stories, selected from her three collections, are set mostly in unnamed provincial European towns and plunge the reader into a narrative maelstrom of longing and loss. Women...
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Mercè Rodoreda, trans. from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent. Open Letter, $15.95 trade paper (230p) ISBN 978-1-948830-08-9
This meditative and melancholy novel from Rodoreda (1908–1983), author of War, So Much War, takes place over six summers in the 1920s in the cloistered world of a seaside villa outside Barcelona. The unnamed narrator is the villa’s gardener who has...
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