Death in Spring

Death in Spring
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Publisher : Open Letter Books
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781934824115
ISBN-13 : 1934824119
Rating : 4/5 (119 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Death in Spring by : Mercè Rodoreda

Download or read book Death in Spring written by Mercè Rodoreda and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merce Rodoreda depicts the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood-through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate.


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