Homage To Barcelona

Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a great Mediterranean city. It celebrates Barcelona as a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life, extravagant nightclubs, restaurants, and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century, to the lives of Gaud Mo, Casals, and Dal It also examines the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years, and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tb witnessed in the 1970s.

Softcover. English. Picador. 2002. ISBN: 9780330373562. 224 pp. Good. Book No: 56182