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In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: MercC) 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

Espejo roto, la novela más extensa y ambiciosa de Mercè Rodoreda, relata la historia de una casa señorial barcelonesa y sus habitantes desde principios del siglo XX hasta los años inmediatamente posteriores a la guerra civil, y es, además, una grandiosa puesta en escena de la desolación y caducidad del ser humano. Insoportablemente cruel en unos pasajes, dolorosamente conmovedora en otros, transfigurada por los fastos del lujo y por las ...

The Time of the Doves, 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. The book has been widely translated, and was made into a film.

My Christina & Other Stories" Years after her death, Merce 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.

»Der zerbrochene Spiegel« ist ein Roman, in welchem jeder sich in den verliebt, in den er sich nicht verlieben darf, und der, dem es an Liebe fehlt, Liebe zu bekommen sucht, gleichgültig wie: in einer Stunde oder einem Augenblicl. Mercé Rodoreda