The publisher’s description at Open Letter Books didn’t really prepare me for what lay ahead:Ĭonsidered 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.
(I’ve previously read her short stories and In Diamond Square.)Īlas, Death in Spring turned out to be slow and reluctant reading because it is so violent and grotesque that I could only read it in the daylight hours. It’s also said to be Mercé Rodoreda’s masterpiece, published posthumously in 1986. Not having left myself much time to read something for Spanish Lit Month at Winston’s Dad, I chose Death in Spring (La mort i la primavera) from the TBR, thinking that at 150 pages I could read it quickly, and that it was a great lead-in to #WITMonth as well.
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