Una chica en la ciudad

This is a book about the city of memory, about love and the city within our bodies. A vivid evocation triggered by L's death, a return to the girl who arrived in the city in 1971 to attend university from her rural border region, and who reveals herself and discovers Barcelona by discovering him. A book of sinuous and precise prose, of intense and mysterious beauty. An urban coming-of-age story of a young woman who cultivates her writing, it brings to life successive shared student apartments; love and friendship as pillars; the enthusiasm for cinema experienced in theaters now gone; the secondhand book market and the books bought with her first paycheck; the soundtrack—rock, jazz, ballads—of an era when music was listened to on vinyl records and cassettes; the bars around Las Ramblas, the backbone of Barcelona. The atmosphere of those final years of the dictatorship emerges, the politicization among students, the feminist counterculture and the proclamation of free love – a bombastic slogan, an excuse, who knows –, the professional beginnings in the press in turbulent times of change and the foundations of a solid literary vocation.