A work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change--and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future
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A work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change--and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future.
The narrator, a fourteen-year-old boy, describes the cruel customs of a village, including the horrible death of his father, and spends time with a prisoner who explains the strange events in the village.
Lushly surreal, Rodoreda's final novel is a mythological depiction of a city ruled by rituals-almost like Franco's Spain.
The narrator, a fourteen-year-old boy, describes the cruel customs of a village, including the horrible death of his father, and spends time with a prisoner who explains the strange events in the village.
"Despite its title, there is little of war and much of the fantastic in this coming-of-age story, which was the last novel Mercè Rodoreda published during her lifetime. We first meet its young protagonist, Adrià Guinart, as he is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for…