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We’re here to help you find that book that you can’t put down, the book you’ll push on all your friends, the book that’ll change your life.

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March Reads 🩶 Today we’re taking a lucky dip into March Reads 🩶 Today we’re taking a lucky dip into our archives and bringing you Death in Spring, Mercè Rodoreda’s classic Catalan novel of tyranny and submission. In an isolated village in the Catalan mountains, an adolescent boy goes for a dip in the local river, swimming downstream to the nearest forest. Here, in the leafy half-light, amidst an ominous clustering of butterflies and bees, he witnesses his father carve open a tree and fold himself into it, in anticipation of certain death. A highlight of the marvellous Penguin European Writers collection, Death in Spring is a bildungsroman unlike any other, a surreal tale of oppression, ritual and exile, with a nod to the darkest folklore. See link in bio for our review | Book design: Chris Bentham @penguinartdept | #Bookstoker #bookswelove #booktok #deathinspring #europeanfiction #litfic #mercerodereda #penguineuropeanwriters #readthisbook #whattoreadnext
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