佛朗哥的最后日子

Montserrat Roig’s classic novel captures Barcelona on the cusp of unimaginable change. By Colm Tóibín ILLUSTRATION BY E S KIBELE YARMAN Montserrat Roig’s classic novel, The Time of Cherries, captures a sort of still point in the history of Barcelona— a moment that came before great change. When the novel ends, no one has any idea that within 18 months, Francisco Franco, the old dictator, will be gone. The Time of Cherries was originally published in Catalan in 1976, the year after Franco died. Half a century later, Roig’s excavation of family life in a period of historical flux is now available in English in the United States for the first time. …