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Item Details
Title:
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A BROKEN MIRROR
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By: |
Merce Rodoreda, Josep Miquel Sobrer, Josep Miquel Sobrer (Trans) |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£23.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
0803290071 |
ISBN 13: |
9780803290075 |
Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 April, 2006 |
Series: |
European Women Writers |
Pages: |
226 |
Synopsis: |
In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merce 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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US |
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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