Camellia Street is one of the major novels of Merce Rodoreda, a brilliant Catalan writer whose works are widely read and admired throughout the world. This is the story of Cecelia and of the war-torn, disoriented Barcelona of the 1940s and 1950s. It is a profoundly feminist work that etches one powerless woman's strength in the face of male brutality; it ends on a note of tenuous rebirth.