Journeys and FlowersA traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush, and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity. Journeys and Flowers by Merc Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines