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Title: The Time of the Doves (La Plaza del Diamante) by Merce Rodoreda ISBN: 0-915308-75-4 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: La Plaça del Diamant
Comment: In my opinion, this is one of the most tender and at the same time hard book written in the 20th century in Catalonia. It mixes love, passion, deep feelings among one of the most difficults times that we Catalans have lived and we still live: the represion in all senses of the Spanish Kingdom.
I would like to suggest to Amanzon, a shop that sells culture, to respect the Catalan culture and not to translate the Catalan book titles into Spanish. The title of this book is "La Plaça del Diamant" (Catalan) and not "La Plaza del Diamante" (Spanish) I am absolutly sure that Merce Rodoreda, a woman who lived the repression on the Spanish for writing, thinking and expressing herself as a Catalan, would appreciate a lot that you keep her titles as they are in bweten brackets: in Catalan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful and simple
Comment: Why it is not called Placa del Diamant in the English translation, I don't know. But the Time of the Doves is a beautifully written tale of hope in a hopeless time; of survival and the power of love (pardon the cliche). It is simplistic because it can be while still communicating these themes effectively, through the mind of the heroine, Natalia.
I first read this book and Rodoreda's other full-length novel, Camellia Street (now out of print in English), when I visited Barcelona three years ago, to give me a sense of place. Now that I live only four blocks from Placa del Diamant, I have re-read them both with the same pleasure. The statute there of Natalia fleeing the doves and the hold of her husband, serves to bring me back to this rich story.
I challenge a history book to provide a reader with a stronger sense of what Spain was actually like during the civil war and the desperation of the Catalan people.
Rating: 4
Summary: Respect for the original language of a work of literature
Comment: I would like to point out that the original title of this novel by Mercè Rodoreda, beautifully translated by David H. Rosenthal, is "La Plaça del Diamant", not "La Plaza del Diamante" as you mention in your listing, as it was written in Catalan and not in Spanish.
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Title: The Back Room by Carmen Martin Gaite, Helen Lane ISBN: 0872863719 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: LA Plaza Del Diamante/the Diamond Plaza by Merce Rodoreda ISBN: 9500701316 Publisher: Aims Intl Books Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell ISBN: 0156421178 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1969 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout, Hans Koning ISBN: 159017013X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The City of Marvels by Eduardo Mendoza, Bernard Molloy ISBN: 0151180407 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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