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de RODOREDA,MERCE
de RODOREDA,MERCE
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from theworking-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks herto dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming andforceful, and she takes his hand.They marry and soon have two children, for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birdsdelight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then theSpanish Civil War erupts, and lays waste to the city and to theirsimple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one hisbeloved birds fly away.A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into moretwenty-eight languages, In Diamond Square is the moving, vivid andpowerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.
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