![]() Joe, a carpenter, decides to build a pigeon loft on the roof, and Pidgey, as he calls Natalia, soon finds her home full of pigeons who, like her children, seem to become solely her responsibility. ![]() She becomes a mother, and we see the traditions of the women around the subject of childbirth. Initially overwhelmed by her rather bullying husband, we see her grow until they gradually become a more equal partnership, although still in a society that is very much a patriarchal one. ![]() The first section shows us Natalia’s marriage before the war. The war happens mostly off the page, referred to but not visited. It is a fascinating picture of someone who has no interest in or understanding of politics – who simply endures as other people destroy her world then put it back together in a different form. ![]() This is the story of Natalia’s marriage and life, before, during and after the war. They marry and have children, but the political situation is deteriorating and soon the nation will be plunged into civil war… ![]() They fall in love, though it seems an unequal love, more as if Natalia has fallen under Joe’s ultra-masculine power. One evening in the early 1930s in Barcelona, young, motherless and naive Natalia dances with a young man at a fiesta in Diamond Square. ![]()
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