NMLP P-021463 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Time of the Doves (orig. UK 'In Diamond Square')

Mercè Rodoreda (trans. David H. Rosenthal) · Taplinger, New York · 1980

The world first is the Catalan 'La plaça del Diamant' (Club Editor, Barcelona, 1962). The true first English appearance, however, is an earlier UK translation: 'The Pigeon Girl,' translated by Eda O'Shiel, André Deutsch, London, 1967. The 1980 Taplinger 'The Time of the Doves' (Rosenthal translation) is the first US edition and a distinct, later translation rather than the first English.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021463 for "The Time of the Doves (orig. UK 'In Diamond Square')" by Mercè Rodoreda (trans. David H. Rosenthal) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021463, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).