OMA BOOKS

Spain — Madrid

• 2011
  Leaving the Atocha Station
  Ben Lerner · novel · 2011

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

• 2011
  The Infatuations
  Javier Marías · novel · 2011

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

• 1996
  Captain Alatriste
  Arturo Pérez-Reverte · novel · 1996

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

• 1951
  The Hive
  Camilo José Cela · novel · 1951

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

• 1924
  Bohemian Lights
  Ramón del Valle-Inclán · play · 1924

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

• 1887
  Fortunata and Jacinta
  Benito Pérez Galdós · novel · 1887

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