Tag: Death in Spring

• The Island (1959) by Ana María Matute

  Getting ready to write this post, I realised it’s been three months since I posted on here. I honestly didn’t realise that much time had passed. That is this pandemic life – time has completely changed. Living in this weird in-between state of anxiety and hesitancy with little pockets of “normal life”, with hardly any […]

  Lizzi

  August 1, 2021

  Fiction, Reviews

  1950s, 1959, 20th Century, Ana Maria Matute, Book review, Death in Spring, Fiction, Laura Lonsdale, Mallora, Merce Rodoreda, Paperback, Penguin, Penguin Modern Classics, Spanish Civil War, Spanish fiction, Spanish literature, The Island, Translated fiction

• Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda (1986)

  I adored Rodoreda’s novel A Broken Mirror (my review here) and so when I saw that Penguin had brought out a new edition of her novel Death in Spring, I had to get myself a copy. And what a beautiful cover! Ostensibly the novel tells the coming-of-age story of a teenage boy in a small […]

  Lizzi

  May 7, 2018

  Fiction, Reviews

  20th Century, A Broken Mirror, Catalan, Death in Spring, Fiction, Magical realism, Merce Rodoreda, Penguin, Penguin European Writers, Spain, Viking