Barcelona early 1930s Natalia a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square But Joe is charming & forceful & she takes his hand They marry & soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening both good & bad When Joe decides to breed pigeons the birds delight his son & daughter
- & infuriate his wife Then the Spanish Civil War erupts & lays waste to the city & to their simple existence Natalia remains in Barcelona struggling to feed her family while Joe goes to fight the fascists & one by one his beloved birds fly away A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more twenty-eight languages In Diamond Square is the moving vivid & powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history