Barcelona Libraries recommend
In the run up to Sant Jordi's Day, Barcelona Libraries are organising the Sant Jordi Dialogues, a meeting place for authors and readers. Conversations with writers from all over the world, based on affinities in their latest books.
This year also commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Barcelona poet Joan Salvat-Papasseit’s death.
Enjoy reading recommendations from the protagonists of the Sant Jordi Dialogues and Joan Salvat-Papasseit. Because the best stories are being told at Barcelona Libraries!
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Dietaris 1990-2017. Una triaCărtărescu, Mircea
This book contains a selection from the four volumes of diaries written by the renowned Romanian author, approaching a dialogue with himself. They form an extensive, complex map of his mind.
Library: Jaume Fuster [Es]
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Consum preferentGENOVART, Andrea
2023 Anagrama Novel Award. This book is narrated as an interior monologue. The young protagonist is seeking her identity and reflects on the things that concern young people entering adult life.
Library: Vilapicina – Carmen Laforet [Es]
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Solo quería bailarGARCÍA, Greta
A thought-provoking, irascible and crude novel, with touches of humour, where the protagonist gives a first-person account, from prison, of the difficulties inherent in making her way in the world of dance.
Library: Trinitat Vella – J. Barbero [Es]
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Casi nada que ponerteLIJTMAER, Lucía
The author's first novel, now reprinted in a new edition. It tells the story, as if it were a newspaper chronicle, of two humble dressmakers who won over wealthy people in Argentina with adulation and lies.
Library: Camp de l’Arpa – Caterina Albert [Es]
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El estilo de los elementosFRESÁN, Rodrigo
In the Argentinian author's latest novel, a viral phantom spreads all around the world, infecting it with forgetfulness, while also immunising it against belief in the past. And meanwhile, the protagonist recalls her life.
Library: Gabriel García Márquez
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And Finally: Matters of Life and DeathMARSH, Henry
The author, a neurosurgeon by profession who has dedicated his entire life to research, gives a first-person account of receiving a diagnosis of advanced cancer, and explains his reaction to this difficult situation.
Library: Sagrada Família – Josep M. Ainaud de Lasarte [Es]
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Lo mig del mónVERNET, Roser
Winner of the 2023 City of Barcelona Literature Prize in Catalan, this book consists of texts presented as thoughts, concerning memory and landscape, a landscape that belongs to the author, her microcosm, El Priorat.
Library: El Carmel – Juan Marsé [Es]
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La historia de los vertebradosGARCÍA PUIG, Mar
2023 City of Barcelona Essay Prize. In this first book, the author explains her painful experience after maternity, and she also undertakes a historical review of other women who experienced the same thing.
Library: Francesca Bonnemaison [Es]
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A las dos serán las tresPÀMIES, Sergi
The latest book of short stories by Pàmies is a series of narrations about historical events or personal anecdotes based on memory, experience and fantasy, in a tone somewhere between irony and insight.
Biblioteca: Esquerra de l’Eixample – Agustí Centelles [Es]
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Biografía del fuegoGURT, Carlota
The author's second book of short stories, after Cavalcarem tota la nit [We'll Ride All Night - 2019]. The stories, which should be read in order and no more than two at a time, are autobiographical in nature, with doubt as the connecting thread.
Library: Fort Pienc – Ana María Moix [Es]
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FortunaDÍAZ, Hernán
The Argentinian author's latest novel is multi-faceted, reflecting on capitalism, avarice, the financial aristocracy and the most intimate and basest passions, seen from a variety of angles and by various protagonists.
Library: Sant Gervasi – Joan Maragall [Es]
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Confeti [Confetti]PUNTÍ, Jordi
Winner of the 2023 Sant Jordi Prize, it recreates the life of the famous Catalan musician Xavier Cugat, in a fictional account with touches of humour, thanks to two characters who were friends, without resorting to sensationalism or idealisation.
Library: Nou Barris – Aurora Díaz Plaja [Es]
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Las luces de febreroMARCÚS, Joana
This book brings the Mesos amb tu [Months With You] young-adult saga to an end. Joana Marcús is a young-adult fantasy, science fiction and romance writer who was already making a name for herself on the Wattpad platform when she was 13 years old.
Library: Zona Nord – Mària Sánchez [Es]
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Joan Salvat-Papasseit: l’incendiari de motsSALVAT-PAPASSEIT, Joan
This book contains a series of unpublished letters, articles and scarce poems by the Barcelona poet. Readers will discover some little-known aspects of his works and life.
Library: Guinardó – Mercè Rodoreda [Es]
