Death in Spring

Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece. Colm Tóibín, from the introduction

Dark and beautiful and brilliantSarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boys coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity.

Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship, Death in Spring is a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence.

Rodoreda has bedazzled me Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rodoredas artistry is of the highest order Diana Athill

Read it for its beauty, for the way it will surprise and subvert your desires, and as a testament to the human spirit in the face of brutality and willful inhumanity. Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing

Utterly extraordinary Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond

Dark and beautiful and brilliantSarah Moss, author of The Tidal Zone