Rain over Madrid

Resumen del libro

Andrés Barba is one of Spain's most prominent literary writers, rightfully included in Granta's The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists issue. Rain Over Madrid is his latest work of fiction, now available in English-language translation.

She remembers that the comment really stung and then immediately stopped stinging like accidentally touching an open sore when she took into account that a virtue can also be a defect if you just shift your perspective a few inches. Taken from one of the four novellas comprising Rain Over Madrid Fatherhood, Guile, Fidelity, and Shopping these words encapsulate the whole book's leitmotiv: all of a sudden, someone is finally able to comprehend somebody else's life.
By featuring totally divergent characters in different settings, Barba in these stories tackles issues such as death, the inability to communicate feelings, the sudden eruption of love, fascination for the other, the architecture of desire and the fear of happiness. An exceptional collection and an enticing read.

Andrés Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age. Mario Vargas Llosa

Barba has perfectly understood the aggressiveness that sometimes defines our romantic encounters and his precise prose provides the perfect vehicle to express it. Times Literary Supplement

A new Spanish great, that's all I need to say. Lire

Biografía del autor

Andrés Barba (Madrid, 1975) ha escrito las novelas La hermana de Katia (finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela), La recta intención, Ha dejado de llover (Premio Nord-Sud), Ahora tocad música de baile, Versiones de Teresa (Premio Torrente Ballester), Las manos pequeñas, Agosto, octubre, Muerte de un caballo (Premio Juan March), En presencia de un payaso y República luminosa (Premio Herralde de Novela, Prix Frontières y finalista del Premio Gregor von Rezzori). Es también autor de los ensayos La ceremonia del porno (coescrito con Javier Montes y Premio Anagrama de Ensayo) y La risa caníbal, y de las biografías literarias Te miro para que te quedes y Vida de Guastavino y Guastavino. En el terreno poético ha escrito Crónica natural (Visor Libros), Libro de las caídas (Sexto Piso) y Los años frente al puente (La Bella Varsovia). Como traductor ha publicado versiones de Melville, James, Conrad y De Quincey, entre otros muchos autores, y es coeditor y creador, junto a Alberto Pina, de la editorial de libros de artista El cañón de Garibaldi. Ha sido profesor invitado en la Universidad de Princeton y ha disfrutado de becas y residencias de la Rockefeller Foundation, la Academia de España en Roma y la New York Public Library. Su obra se ha traducido a veintidós idiomas en algunas de las editoriales más prestigiosas del mundo.