A novel about the city of Barcelona, a swarm of passions that some adore and that others would burn.



Barcelona has the ability to live immersed in a considerable jumble. The Olympic Games, the Forum of Cultures, the squatters, the rising prices, the construction bubble, the people who pass by and the streets that remain. The city is a hive of passions. Some love it. Others would burn it all. After dazzling the critics with Empordan Escafarlata and Alteracions, Adrià Pujol dares now to dissect, with intelligence, perspiration and irony, the city of Barcelona and, indirectly, the whole country.

Translated by: Douglas Suttle