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In Diamond Square
Mercè Rodoreda
出版Thorpe, 2014
ISBN14448211059781444821109
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JkN8oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Natalia, a pretty shop girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts; Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one his beloved birds fly away...