Coming from East Asia, I didn’t know much about the Spanish Civil War beforehand, but after reading the book I got a decent level of understanding of the historical event from the information provided in the novel and through my own research. I find the quote “[The Nationalist side] had won the war but lost […]
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The Time of the Doves by Mercé Rodoreda is definitely a heart-wrenching book, and challenging to read at times (well, I mean basically all of the time). There is little to be happy about in this book, and the times that are happy, you can probably count on two hands. Nevertheless, I think that the […]
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