BARCELONA DREAMING

Barcelona Dreaming consists of three long stories, linked both by place and time – they are set in Barcelona in the first decade of this century – and also by major characters in one story re-appearing as a minor character in the next. In one story a divorced British expat falls in love with a young Moroccan sex worker she finds crying in the car park beneath her apartment. In another a former jazz musician has a weirdly plausible dream that he is employed to give English lessons to Barcelona’s Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho. The third concerns a translator of literary fiction, and a wonky love triangle.