WAR, SO MUCH WAR

Despite its title, there is little of war and much of the fantastic in this coming-of-age story, which was the last novel Mercè Rodo reda published during her lifetime.We first meet its young protagonist, Adrià Guinart, as he is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for freedom, embarking on a long journey through the backwaters of a rural land, accompanied by the interminable, distant rumblings of an indefinable war. In vignette-like chapters and a narrative style imbued with the fantastic, Guinart meets with numer ous adven...[Read more]