THE TIME OF THE DOVES

Told through Natalia's stream of consciousness, the novel is filled with precise observations, magical ramblings, exquisite metaphor s, and a feeling as rushed, rippling, and languorous as a river running a long course. Merce Rodoreda was twenty-six and just gainin g recognition as an important author when Franco took power and repressed the Catalan language/ she went into exile and did not writ e again for twenty years. The Time of the Doves, written when she was fifty-three, is a stunning recreation of both a Spanish histor y and th...[Read more]