Journeys and Flowers

Name: Journeys and Flowers
Brand: Faber Factory
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By: Merce Rodoreda

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Paperback | 28 January 2025

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104 Pages

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19.8 x 12.8

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A mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and
flowers.

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.

Merce Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.

Industry Reviews

'Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels.' - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

'Rodoreda is often called the most influential Catalan writer of the last century-as well as a vital, vivid, existential novel about war. The un-selfconscious beauty and the phantasmagoric pain in her work add up to a kind of sharp, transportive pleasure.' - Jia Tolentino

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