DEATH IN SPRING

The grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Mercè Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works . The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy. T he boy struggles to come to terms with the rhyme and reason of the town's ritual violence, and with his wild, teenaged stepmother, w ho becomes his playmate. By developing the relationships between the boy and the townspeople, and examining the town's rituals, Rodo reda por...[Read more]