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Barcelona Dreaming

by Rupert Thomson
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The Irish Times: Best Book of the Year  
New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice
The Times (UK): Book of the Week Pick  
Foreword Reviews: Book of the Day Pick 
Conde Nast Traveler: Best Book of the Season Pick 
Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, this evocative novel is made up of three stories linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.
 
Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love, all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow, is a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant.
 
Exploring themes of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration, and self-delusion, and fueled by a longing for the unattainable and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost, Barcelona Dreaming is a love letter to one of the world’s most beautiful cities and a powerful and poignant fable for our uncertain times.
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Publisher: Other Press

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9781635420470
  • Release date: June 1, 2021

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781635420470
  • Release date: June 1, 2021

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781635420470
  • File size: 1268 KB
  • Release date: June 1, 2021
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subjects

Fiction Literature Mystery

Languages

English

The Irish Times: Best Book of the Year  
New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice
The Times (UK): Book of the Week Pick  
Foreword Reviews: Book of the Day Pick 
Conde Nast Traveler: Best Book of the Season Pick 
Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, this evocative novel is made up of three stories linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters.
 
Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love, all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow, is a crime committed against a young Moroccan immigrant.
 
Exploring themes of addiction, racism, celebrity, immigration, and self-delusion, and fueled by a longing for the unattainable and a nostalgia for what is about to be lost, Barcelona Dreaming is a love letter to one of the world’s most beautiful cities and a powerful and poignant fable for our uncertain times.
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Fiction Literature Mystery