OMA BOOKS

2004: a young American poet on a fellowship in Madrid, as the train bombings strike.

A Madrid editor grows obsessed with a couple she watched at breakfast, until his murder.

1620s: a soldier and swordsman for hire in the streets of Madrid.

1943: three days in Madrid, around one café and its hundreds of customers.

A blind poet’s last night wandering Madrid’s taverns and cells.

1870s: two women, one rich, one poor, love the same man in Madrid.

14th century: a serf’s son rises in Barcelona as Santa Maria del Mar is built.

1945: a boy finds a forgotten novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, in Barcelona.

1930s–40s: a young woman in Gràcia lives through the Republic and the war.

An orphan comes to study in postwar Barcelona and lodges with her strange family.

Orwell joins the militias and watches revolutionary Barcelona turn on itself.