Death in Spring
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mercè Rodoreda ; translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent
Contributors: Tennent, Martha, translator
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Open Letter, Literary translations from the University of Rochester
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781940953281
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; Teenage boys; Fiction; HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal; FICTION / Literary
Work titles: Mort i la primavera
Description: "Death in Spring tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town--burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town--through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate"--
Notes: Translation of : La mort i la primavera.