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That's good to hear, Jimmy. Yours will be the first!
Thanks for your review, Zanna.
I met someone from Catalonia yesterday who was pleasantly surprised to find out that I had read Rodoreda, once we got past my horrible butchering of her name. Books bring people together :)
"...Told through Natalia's stream of consciousness, the novel is filled with precise observations, magical ramblings, exquisite metaphors, and a feeling as rushed, rippling, and languorous as a river running a long course. Mercè Rodoreda was twenty-six and just gaining recognition as an important author when Franco took power and repressed the Catalan language; she went into exile and did not write again for twenty years..."
(E.B., p. 222)
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