Romeo y Julieta

Verona. Two feuding families. A Montague boy who sneaks into a Capulet party and sees a girl across the room. A balcony, a night, and a line that hasn't lost an ounce of its power in five hundred years: "O Romeo, Romeo! Why must thee be called Romeo?" Everyone knows how Romeo and Juliet ends. But that doesn't stop it from hurting just the same every time you read it, every time you reach that scene. This novelized version by Pasqual Alapont takes Shakespeare's text and transforms it into a fast-paced novel with vibrant dialogue. The spirit of the original remains intact: the passion, the dark irony, the relentless pace of a tragedy that offers no respite. What changes is the format. Instead of a dramatic text meant to be performed, a novel meant to be devoured. A unique opportunity to discover —or rediscover— the voice of one of the greatest writers of all time.