Camellia Street

Camellia Street

By Mercè Rodoreda

One of Rodoreda's most beloved--and profoundly feminist--works is finally restored to print.

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Publisher: Open Letter
Publish Date: 11/20/2018
Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781940953861
ISBN-10: 1940953863
Language: English

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A major work from Mercè Rodoreda's early, realistic period, Camellia Street is set in war-torn Barcelona of the 1940s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleeing her adoptive family in favor of a more unsettled life of fire-setting, poverty, one abusive man after another, prostitution, and, eventually, a tenuous note of rebirth. Building on the themes of The Time of the Doves, Rodoreda uses Cecilia's difficult life to explore the strength of one woman in the face of male brutality. A classic work of feminist fiction that's as charged today as when it was first published in Catalan back in 1966.

About the Author

Mercè Rodoreda is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century. Exiled in France and Switzerland following the Spanish Civil War, Rodoreda began writing the novels and short stories-- Twenty-Two Short Storie s, The Time of the Doves , Camellia Street , Garden by the Sea --that would eventually make her internationally famous, while at the same time earning a living as a seamstress.

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