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The Time Of The Doves (also translated as The Pigeon Girl or In Diamond Square;[1] original Catalan-language: La plaça del Diamant, that is Diamond Square) is a 1962 novel written by exiled Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda.
The book is named after a square in Barcelona's Gràcia district. It is featured in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon as part of a list of canonical books of the "Chaotic Age".[2] Arguably the author's most accomplished work, the novel has been translated into more than thirty languages[3] and is regarded as one of the most important pieces of fiction in contemporary Catalan literature. It is also a staple of the curriculum in secondary school programs across Catalonia.[citation needed]
Set in Barcelona during the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War, the novel pictures a young woman, Natalia (nicknamed Colometa, the Pigeon Girl[4]), and her struggles in life[5] as well as her relationships with two men: Quimet, her first husband, who dies in the war; and Antoni, her second husband. It is also a chronicle of life in the city at the time,[5] in a balanced mixture of psychologism and naturalism.[citation needed]
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It was made into a film in 1982 directed by Francesc Betriu,[6] and has spawned several theatrical adaptations, including a play directed by Joan Ollé in 2004[7][8] and another in 2007 adapted by Josep M. Benet i Jornet.[9]
- The Pigeon Girl. Translated by Eda O'Shiel. London: André Deutsch, 1967.[10]
- The Time Of The Doves. Translated by David H. Rosenthal. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1980.[11][12]
- In Diamond Square. Translated by Peter Bush. London: Virago Press Ltd, 2013.[1]
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