Barcelona Dreaming Paperback by Rupert Thomson

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Barcelona Dreaming Paperback by Rupert Thomson

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  • Publisher: Other Press (2021-06-01)
  • Language: English
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • ISBN-13: 9781635420425
  • Item Weight: 249.48 grams
  • Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.25 x 0.56 cm

The Irish Times: Best Book of the Year  
New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice

The Times
(UK): Book of the Week Pick  
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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.

About the Author

Rupert Thomson is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including Katherine Carlyle; Secrecy; The Insult, which was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize and selected by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time; The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by Ana Kokkinos; and Death of a Murderer, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. His memoir, This Party’s Got to Stop, was named Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year. He lives in London.


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