Death in Spring - Penguin European Writers

Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.'' Colm Toibín, from the introductionbr>br>''Dark and beautiful and brilliant'' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall br>br>Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy''s coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity. br>br>Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship, Death in Spring is a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence. br>br>''Rodoreda has bedazzled me'' Gabriel Garcia Marquezbr>br>''Rodoreda''s artistry is of the highest order'' Diana Athill br>br>''Read it for its beauty, for the way it will surprise and subvert your desires, and as a testament to the human spirit in the face of brutality and willful inhumanity.'' Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing br>br>''Utterly extraordinary'' Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond>

About the author

Mercè Rodoreda is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled to France during the Spanish Civil War, she was only able to return to Barcelona in the mid-1960s, where she wrote several prize-winning novels.Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.

Product details

• Authors: Merce Rodoreda, Mercè Rodoreda
• Assisted by: Colm Tóibín (Introduction), Martha Tennent (Translation), Tennent Martha (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780241352540
• ISBN: 978-0-241-35254-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Series: European Essentials; Penguin European Writers; European Essentials; Penguin European Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Dystopian and utopian fiction, Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), c 1940 to 1975 (period of Franco’s dictatorship), Catalonia