Garden by the Sea by Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Maruxa Relaño [in Booklist]
27 Feb, by in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Spanish, Translation
Set in 1920s Catalonia, the permeability of social classes – upstairs/downstairs style – gets played out in a Spanish seaside villa. The gardener, who has outlasted multiple “masters” over decades, narrates “six summers and one terrible winter” from when Barcelona almost-newlyweds take possession until the...