Garden by the Sea Author:Merce Rodoreda, Martha Tennent (Translator), Maruxa Relano (Translator) The novel that defined Mercè Rodoreda’s most prolific period is finally available in English for the first time. — Set in 1920s Spain, Garden by the Sea takes place over six summers at a villa by the sea inhabited by a young couple and their beautiful, rich, joyous friends. They swim, drink, tease each other, and fully enjoy... more » themselves. All the while, the guests are observed by the villa’s gardener, a widow who’s been tending the garden for several decades. As the true protagonist of the novel, we get to see the dissolution of these magical summers through his eyes, as a sense of darkness and ending creeps in, precipitated by the construction of a new, larger, more glamorous villa next door.« less