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Journeys and Flowers
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A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush, and dreamlike,...
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Journeys and Flowers
A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and
flowers.
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Description
A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers.
Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush, and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.
Journeys and Flowers by Mercè Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781914198960
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Gala Sicart Olavide
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 104
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About the Author
Mercè Rodereda was born in Barcelona in 1908 and published five novels between 1932 and 1937, and then fled into exile at the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the Catalan culture was brutally suppressed. She did not publish again until 1959. Afterwards, she regularly produced novels and collections of short stories and became a fixture on Catalan bestseller lists. When Franco died, most restrictions on the use of Catalan were lifted, and Rodereda returned to Barcelona, where she died of cancer in 1983.
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