Barcelona, the exuberant capital of Catalonia and host of the 1992 Olympics, is here explored and exposed by its greatest contemporary author.Manuel Vazquez Montalban’s anecdotal history takes us on an imaginary tour of the city, from its most secret corners to its most famous monuments. An erudite and impassioned guide, Montalban finds a controversy in every building, a story in every street, illuminating the city’s rich history and turbulent politics, its art, gastronomy and football. There are many Barcelonas, and Montalban knows them all: the lavish art-nouveau houses in Vallvidrera where he himself lives; the labyrinthine squalor of the Barri Xino, setting for Genet’s Thief’s Journal; the Barri Gotic where the independent Catalan Kingdom between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries created a nationalist consciousness which has endured for half a millennium; the oneiric Parc Guell, designed by the city’s most celebrated architect, Antoni Gaudi.But this definitive survey is one unlikely to be endorsed by the Oficina de Turismo. For Montalban is fiercely critical of the values of the new ‘Olympic’ Barcelona: the misery of the inner-city slums where one person dies every second day from a heroin overdose; the speculation which has compounded overcrowding in a metropolis with the highest population density in Europe; the ravaging of working-class suburbs to make way for an aseptic international centre. Once Europe’s most utopian city, Barcelona, he argues, ‘has become a market, and everything is up for sale’.For visitors, Barcelonas will prove a stimulating, indispensable companion. And for everyone interested in art and architecture, politics and sport, it will provide an enthralling introduction to the great European city.

Barcelonas

Montalbán, Manuel Vázquez

Literature & Fiction

Verso

";One of the finest examples of European noir’ literature."; John Harvey ";Pepe Carvalho is a true original."; The Times (London) As private investigator Pepe Carvalho cruises the backstreets of Barcelona, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier town hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past. Manuel Vázquez Montálban was born in Barcelona in 1939. He won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers. He died in 2003.

An Olympic Death

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Serpent's Tail

";Between 1977 and 1990, Montalbán wrote half a dozen novels that stand among the best in modern Spanish literature. Like Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, he is the man of honour walking the mean streets of a sick society.";?The Independent "Pepe Carvalho is a true original."?The Times (London) Spain's most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of twenty-first century Catalonia. When the son of a rich financier is murdered, Carvalho is called upon to investigate his mysterious death. In his quest for the killer, Carvalho infiltrates the world of satanism and religious sects.

Man of My Life (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery)

The Buenos Aires Quintet

Thrillers & Suspense

The author watched John Paul II visit Cuba and meet Fidel Castro. This relationship between two key figures is the beginning of an analyst of Cuba today. In a world where pure communism has disappeared and the Catholic Church is losing influence in Latin America, politics and religion work together towards a common goal.

Y Dios Entro En LA Habana (Spanish Edition)

Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

Barcelona. 20 cm. 221 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Serie Carvalho', numero coleccion(18). Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel 1939-2003. Serie Carvalho (Editorial Planeta) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-08-01120-0

El Hermano Pequeno

History & Criticism

Planeta Pub Corp

Planeta. Barcelona. 1997. 18 cm. 219 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Serie Carvalho'. Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel 1939-2003. Booket. Serie Carvalho (Editorial Planeta) .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-08-02087-0

El Delantero Centro Fue Asesinado Al Atardecer (Spanish Edition)

Montalbán, M. Vázquez

Barcelona. 21 cm. 523 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección '[Carvalho, 25 años]'. Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel 1939-2003. Colección Autores españoles e hispanoamericanos. Carvalho, 25 años .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-08-02213-X

Quinteto de Buenos Aires (Spanish Edition)

El Premio (Serie Carvalho) (Spanish Edition)

A caballo entre el reportaje y la ficcion, Galindez narra un suceso historico: la desaparicion y ulterior asesinato del abogado y combatiente vasco en la Guerra Civil espanola, Jesus de Galindez. Nueva York, 1956: Jesus de Galindez, representante del PNV en Estados Unidos, trabaja en una tesis doctoral sobre las dictaduras latinoamericanas centrada en la figura de Trujillo y su sanguinario regimen. Poco despues de presentar su tesis, Galindez es secuestrado y conducido a la Republica Dominicana, donde se le pierde el rastro para siempre. A partir de este hecho, Manuel Vazquez Montalban crea un relato imaginario: la investigacion que, treinta y dos anos mas tarde, lleva a cabo una universitaria americana, Muriel Colbert, a la que pondran en peligro las mismas fuerzas oscuras que acabaron con Galindez. Sobre el misterio, las verdades a medias y las especulaciones se construye esta novela apasionante que en 1991 fue galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Narrativa.

Galindez (Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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