Camellia Street

By Mercè Rodoreda

Book Overview

A major work from Merc Rodoreda's early, realistic period, Camellia Street is set in war-torn Barcelona of the 1940s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleeing her adoptive family in favor of a more unsettled life of fire-setting, poverty, one abusive man after another, prostitution, and, eventually, a tenuous note of rebirth. Building on the themes of The Time of the Doves , Rodoreda uses Cecilia's difficult life to explore the strength of one woman in the face of male brutality. A classic work of feminist fiction that's as charged today as when it was first published in Catalan back in 1966.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940953863
• ISBN13: 9781940953861
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Open Letter
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"