Death in Spring
ISBN-13: 9781940953281
Author(s): Merce Rodoreda
Subjects: FBC, FYT
Publisher: Open Letter
Publisher Imprint: Open Letter
Publication Date: 07-01-2016
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£12.99
About the book
Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's masterpiece is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals, almost like Franco's Spain. 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.