Death in Spring is an unfinished novel by Catalan author Mercè Rodoreda.

[6] The narrator, and by extension her audience, must struggle with the senselessness of violence when it is integral to the fabric of a society.

The book progresses through the seasons, and Rodoreda uses this repetition, and other forms, frequently as literary devices.

It ends with the narrator in the forest of the dead, making a cross out of nails, and beginning the suicide ritual.

It is possible that this ending was a purposeful choice by Rodoreda; allowing both the tangibility of nihilism and the reality of hope to collide just beyond the final pages of the novel.