'Rodoreda has bedazzled me' Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'Read it for its beauty, for the way it will surprise and subvert your desires, and as a testament to the human spirit in the face of brutality and willful inhumanity.' Jesmyn Ward, author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
'Rodoreda's artistry is of the highest order' Diana Athill
'Utterly extraordinary' Claire-Louise Bennett