"Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever. Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addiction,...

Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his feelings for his cousin, Lakhdar finds himself on the streets of Barcelona hiding from both the police and the Muslim Group for the Propagation of Koranic Thoughts, a group he worked for in Tangier not long after being thrown out on the streets by his father.

A sus treinta y un anos, Carol es una traductora que vive en Barcelona y que esta a punto de ver como un tsunami emocional sacude su vida. Primero es Samuel, su pareja, a quien descubre en su propia cama haciendo con otra lo que ella tanto echaba de menos. Y luego una llamada desde el pueblo: un dificil trance familiar al que debera enfrentarse sola. Pero de repente su destino se cruza con el de Isaac Salazar. No es que sea un tipo demasiado simpatico,...

En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más. Con estilo deslumbrante e impecable precisión narrativa, el autor de La sombra del viento nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance...

"A riveting thriller combining real historical events and characters with a sinister detective story of eugenics, racism, and nationalist paranoia. Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton's arrival in the Catalan capital...

An unexpected pregnancy forces Dani, a screenwriter whose own father abandoned him as a child, and Marta, a photographer with dreams of moving to Berlin to pursue her artistry, to face their differing views of the future.