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      A Broken Mirror

      by Merce Rodoreda
      Published
      Apr 2006
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
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      226
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      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 together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three generations and composing a kaleidoscopic family history ranging over six decades and turning upon events both intimate and historic—most notably the Spanish Civil War.

      Opening with Teresa Goday, the lovely young fishmonger's daughter married to a wealthy old man, the story shifts from one perspective to another, reflecting from myriad angles the founding of a matriarchal dynasty—and its eventual, seemingly inevitable disintegration. A family saga extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship, A Broken Mirror is finally also a novel about the inexorable passing of time.

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      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical

      Themes

      Saga

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      Apr 2006 Bison Books ISBN13 9780803290075 ISBN10 0803290071
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      Feb 2017 Daunt Books ISBN13 9781907970887 ISBN10 1907970886
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      Apr 2006 University of Nebraska Press ISBN13 9780803239630 ISBN10 0803239637
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