The Time of Cherries - Montserrat Roig five years her junior

five years her junior

she has resigned herself to brutal treatment at the hands of her cruel husband and the carping of her despotic mother-in-law

To save her reputation

holds the meaning of all Russian history

Translator: Antony Wood

The Time of Cherries - Montserrat Roig five years her juniorSpring, 1974. After twelve years abroad, Natlia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona and her family. Change is in the air: revolution sexual, political and artistic is simmering. Franco may still be in power, but his death is only two years away. The younger generation write poetry, listen to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and talk of a freer future. The older generation, though, carry the hidden wounds of the Civil War, their divided loyalties, and their