by Mercè Rodoreda · Genérico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485123995
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«La Plaza del Diamante» is the novel by Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda, published in 1982 in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
Set in working-class Barcelona, the novel tells the life of Natàlia, a young woman in the postwar period trying to get by in an environment of poverty and repression. Rodoreda builds an intimate portrait of daily life and of women's resistance in the face of adversity.
The novel was first published in Catalan in 1962 as La plaça del Diamant; this illustrated Spanish edition, with a prologue by Joan Sales, dates from 1982.
It is aimed at readers of twentieth-century classic fiction and those seeking stories of postwar Barcelona.
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Catalan novelist, who wrote in the Catalan language.
