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Journeys and Flowers

Merce Rodoreda, Gala Sicart Olavide
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Daunt Books
Published: October 10, 2024
ISBN: 9781914198960
104 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

With an introduction by Helen Oyeyemi

A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and flowers.

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.

Mercè Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.

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