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Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Mercè Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel tells the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless townâburying the dead in trees after filling their mouths withâŚ
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Death in Spring is a tiny book containing a bigger, more intricate world than many a doorstopper, for all that the whole story set in a small, nameless hamlet.
Life there too is made of strange, violent rituals, only not the ones we know. We follow a boy growing up and learning them, and being scarred by these mysteriesâwhat do they fill the mouths of the dead with, before they are killed and put into a tree forever? (Itâs cement.)
Rodoreda wrote in Catalan, and Tennentâs translation is fluid and beautiful.
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