{"product_id":"9780915308651","title":"My Christina and Other Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eMy Christina and Other Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Mercè Rodoreda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Christina and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears after her death, Mercè Rodoreda's work is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and style, from the hallucinatory to the bleakly realistic, from tales of tenderness and love to stories that might best be called folktales, reality merged with dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The humor in the stories, as well as their thrill of realism, comes from a Nabokovian precision of observation and transformation of plain experience into enchanting prose.” —\u003ci\u003eTodd Crespi, Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A compelling stylist, well translated, with passages of stunning imagery in virtually every story.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mr. Rosenthal's translation is top-flight and does justice to some of the best prose that has been written in Spain in the modern era.” —\u003ci\u003eGregory Rabassa, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780915308651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593988190414,"sku":"9780915308651","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_51c3f498-b145-417b-9df3-49c9bc1eeb08.jpg?v=1637798128","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780915308651","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}