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SUMMARY:July Classic: In Diamond Square - Mercè Rodoreda
LOCATION:Bernie Spain Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 41% · why: lots of
  people going · good weather for it\n\nNew members are always welcome. :)\
 n\nDescription:\n'A small masterpiece' Colm Toibin\, Daily Telegraph\n\n'I
  don't know how many times I have reread the book\, including several time
 s in Catalan\, with such effort that speaks volumes to my devotion to the 
 novel' Gabriel Garcia Marquez\n\n'The fierce beauty of Rodoreda's writing 
 makes it one of the masterpieces of modern European literature' Independen
 t\n\nFirst published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant'\, this is considere
 d the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English tran
 slation. It has previously been published in English as The Time of the Do
 ves.\n\nBarcelona\, early 1930s: Natalia\, a pretty shop-girl from the wor
 king-class quarter of Gracia\, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dan
 ce at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful\, and
  she takes his hand.\n\nThey marry and soon have two children\; for Natali
 a it is an awakening\, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeon
 s\, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then 
 the Spanish Civil War erupts\, and lays waste to the city and to their sim
 ple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona\, struggling to feed her famil
 y\, while Joe goes to fight the fascists\, and one by one his beloved bird
 s fly away.\n\nA highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into mo
 re twenty-eight languages\, In Diamond Square is the moving\, vivid and po
 werful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.\n\n'A
 n 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\n\n'Go along with Natalia on her night out and you'
 ll soon find you'd follow her anywhere. Rodoreda's writing pays such fierc
 e and tender attention to the experience of being alive\, and the tempest 
 that ordinary life can be' Helen Oyeyemi
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