Merce Rodoreda

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1984
  • Latest Book:
    February 2020
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • My Christina and Other Stories

    My Christina and Other Stories

    Years after her death, Mercè Rodoreda's work is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and style, from the hallucinatory to the bleakly ...

  • The Time of the Doves

  • Camellia Street

    A major work from Mercè Rodoreda’s early, realistic period, Camellia Street is set in war-torn Barcelona of the 1940s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleeing her adoptive family in favor of a ...

  • A Broken Mirror

    In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming toget...

  • Death in Spring

    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 town -- bur...

  • The Selected Stories of Merce Rodoreda

    "The humor in the stories, as well as their thrill of realism, comes from a Nabokovian precision of observation and transformation of plain experience into enchanting prose.""-Los Angeles TimesCollected here are thirty-one of Merce Rodoreda''s most m...

  • In Diamond Square

  • War, So Much War

    Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015""Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels." -- Gabriel García Marquez"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches...

  • Garden by the Sea

    The novel that defined Mercè Rodoreda’s most prolific period is finally available in English for the first time. Set in 1920s Spain, Garden by the Sea takes place over six summers at a villa by the sea inhabited by a young couple and their beau...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Merce Rodoreda has published 9 books.

Merce Rodoreda does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Garden by the Sea, was published in February 2020.

The first book by Merce Rodoreda, My Christina and Other Stories, was published in January 1984.

No. Merce Rodoreda does not write books in series.
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