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A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War

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.

Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's masterpiece is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals-almost like Franco's Spain.

Mercè Rodoreda's final novel, this is a meditation on the consequences of moral degradation and the inescapable presence of evil.

Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's final novel is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals-almost like Franco's Spain.

Collected here are thirty-one of Merc Rodoredas most moving and challenging stories, presented in chronological order of their publication from three of Rodoredas most beloved short story collections.