In Diamond Square
By: Mercè Rodoreda ; translated by Peter Bush
Contributors: Bush, Peter R., 1946- translator
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781444821109
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Natalia, a pretty shop girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, 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 birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts; Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one his beloved birds fly away...
Notes: Translated from the Catalan.