Mercè Rodoreda Books In Order

Novels

  1. Garden by the Sea (1967)
  2. The Time of the Doves (1986)
  3. Camellia Street (1993)
  4. A Broken Mirror (2006)
  5. Death in Spring (2009)
  6. In Diamond Square (2013)

Collections

  1. My Christina (1984)
  2. The Selected Stories of Merce Rodoreda (2011)

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Mercè Rodoreda Books Overview

The Time of the Doves

The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a na ve 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. The book has been widely translated, and was made into a film.

A Broken Mirror

In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merc 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 together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three generations and composing a kaleidoscopic family history ranging over six decades and turning upon events both intimate and historic most notably the Spanish Civil War.

Opening with Teresa Goday, the lovely young fishmonger’s daughter married to a wealthy old man, the story shifts from one perspective to another, reflecting from myriad angles the founding of a matriarchal dynasty and its eventual, seemingly inevitable disintegration. A family saga extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship, A Broken Mirror is finally also a novel about the inexorable passing of time.

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Death in Spring

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merc

My Christina

My Christina & Other Stories

Years after her death, Merc Rodoreda’s work is enjoying a well deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and style, from the hallucinatory to the bleakly realistic, from tales of tenderness and love to stories that might best be called folktales, reality merged with dream.

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