Cartes a l'Anna Murià (1939-1956)

On January 23, 1939, the library bus took from Barcelona a group of writers linked to the Institution of Catalan Literature. Among them are Mercè Rodoreda and Armand Obiols; in the truck behind, among a dozen writers protected by the Government of the Generalitat, Anna Murià. In April there are about thirty refugees in a castle north of Paris where exile is a mourning and a rebirth. For Rodoreda and Murià, it is the place of the encounter with the great love that will determine their lives. When France goes to war, Murià and Bartra decide to embark for the West Indies, Rodoreda and Obiols stay in Paris. The six years that await them leave no stone unturned. Bonds, longings, needs, there is nothing that danger does not upset. The bond that unites lovers is made of complicity and betrayal; all the work of Mercè Rodoreda, written in exile from Paris and Geneva, will be nourished by this enormous test of endurance.