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*Broken Mirror*—Mercè Rodoreda’s most expansive and ambitious novel—chronicles the story of a stately Barcelona mansion and its inhabitants from the early twentieth century through the years immediately following the Civil War; it is, moreover, a magnificent portrayal of human desolation and transience. At times unbearably cruel and at others painfully moving—transfigured by the trappings of luxury and the musty light of decadence and predation—this family saga stands as a major work of contemporary Hispanic fiction and a classic of Catalan literature since its publication in 1974.