Publisher's Synopsis
Unlike any other city travel guide, Barcelona Secret Museum, written by Barcelonian novelist Ignacio Vidal-Folch, proposes a view of the city from the subjective perspective of a writer. His contemplative, humorous, and beautifully descriptive writing guides the reader through 80 sites monuments, squares, buildings, as well as shop windows, hidden streets, desolate neighborhoods, walls of posters and street art always with fascinating cultural commentary and universal references to the history of art, cinema and literature. Ignacio Vidal-Folch (b. Barcelona, 1956) has published many novels and short stories including Contramundo, Amigos que no he vuelto a ver, La libertad, Cabeza de plstico, which take place in different european cities. This is the first book devoted to his native city. His articles regularly appear in newspapers and magazines including Tiempo and El Pais, where these writings were originally published.
