Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015" "Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels."--Gabriel Garc a Marquez "Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability."--Natasha Wimmer, The Nation "It is a total mystery to me why Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped;...