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War, So Much War by Rodoreda, Mercè; Tennent, Martha; Relaño, Maruxa is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015" "Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels."—Gabriel García Marquez "Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability."—Natasha Wimmer, The Nation "It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die. Tremendous, tremendous writer."—John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats 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 freedom, embarking on a long journey through the backwaters of a rural land that one can only suppose is Catalonia, accompanied by the interminable, distant rumblings of an indefinable war. In vignette-like chapters and with a narrative style imbued with the fantastic, Guinart meets with numerous adventures and peculiar chara

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Author

Rodoreda, Mercè; Tennent, Martha; Relaño, Maruxa

Publisher

Open Letter, Literary translations from the University of Rochester

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781940953236

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History

Rating

3.68 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13