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The Time of the Doves

Mercè Rodoreda

Paperback | Pages: 201 pages

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Title	:	The Time of the Doves
Author	:	Mercè Rodoreda
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 201 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1986 by Graywolf Press (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Spain. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Spanish Literature

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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. A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more than twenty languages, In Diamond Square is the moving, vivid and powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.

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Original Title:	La plaça del Diamant
ISBN:	0915308754 (ISBN13: 9780915308750)
Edition Language:	English

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Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (1908-1983) We went up a narrow stone staircase with very high steps and a ceiling over it and walls on each side and came out in a yard full of boys. Their heads were all shaved and covered with lumps and their faces were nothing but eyes. One of the unfortunate many to have been born in Europe during the first third of the 20th century, the Catalonian Mercè Rodoreda started publishing early, but the Spanish Civil War intervened and when it ended in 1939 Rodoreda - a

There's a reason why Gabriel Garcia Marquez learned Catalan just read to this novel. He called it "the most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War." Great translation by poet David Rosenthal that captures the gorgeously off-handed rhythms and glowing repetitions of Rodereda's prose. Avoid the newer version called "In Diamond Plaza."

3.5 starsLacking a mother to advise her, Natalia, whose ideas of romance and beauty seem to be symbolised by the colour white, which she loves to wear, is picked up by a douchecanoe so selfish and arrogant he takes her name from her and proceeds to arrange her life and possessions at his service. Eventually he fills their home with doves, another white creature coerced violently into confinement. Natalia is living in hell, but it seems there is a hell below this one because along comes the civil

I received this book as a gift from a friend who wants to go to Barcelona. I'd never heard of Rodoreda, which is a pity, as I loved the lyricism of the novel, and I was deeply moved by it.

Perhaps I wasn't in the mood for this type of historical fiction; perhaps it had to do with the translation.(view spoiler)[However, I am SO glad she put back the hydrochloric acid! Dios mio! (hide spoiler)]Should I attempt to do a re-read, I would have to read it in Catalan, at the very least Spanish.

This is a really good mix of1) stylistically lithe prose, spontaneously beautiful and quirky, stream-of-consciousness without the cerebral aspect that turn some off to it (not that I mind that but...) and2) intensely desperately human experience. A woman looks back on her life, as it has passed through the Spanish Civil War. Sounds bleak but an entire life, with everything in crisp detail, fits in.Quite simply lovely and stunning, and every time i find a copy I buy it so I can give it away to