My Christina and Other Stories

Mercè Rodoreda's collection brings together seventeen short stories that shift between very different registers. Some are dreamlike and feverish, while others are grim and rooted in ordinary hardship. Some look closely at tenderness and love, and others take the form of old folk tales in which the everyday and the imagined blur together. Across the book the reader meets a wide range of characters and situations, each story offering its own route into the same preoccupations. The result is a varied sampler of a writer whose imagination sits comfortably between the real and the strange.