Mercè Rodoreda: Death in Spring (Penguin European Writers) [2018] paperback CCON Now Hajime is in his

Now Hajime is in his thirties

self-aware

It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the island of Japan

It was his leadership that overthrew empires and his sacrifice that saved the Unified Realm from destruction

preferring the dangers to separation from their families

Mercè Rodoreda: Death in Spring (Penguin European Writers) [2018] paperback CCON Now Hajime is in his'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing A masterpiece.' Colm Toibin, from the introduction 'Dark and beautiful and brilliant' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Death in Spring is a dark and dream like tale of a teenage boy's 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