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About the Author

Merce Rodoreda is considered the most preeminent Catalan writer. She was born in 1908 in Barcelona. During the Spanish Civil War, she was exiled in France and later Switzerland.

Reviews

I don't know how many times I have reread the book, including several times in Catalan, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the novel - Gabriel Garcia MarquezAn extremely moving love story translated from the Catalan, which reveals much about the Spanish civil war as ordinary, non-political people had to live it - Diana Athill