04/10/2025
18 years ago I fell in love with this book 😇
I bought it after believing the reviews. And I was not wrong — 1000%.
💬 “I could try to tell you the plot, however it would be like describing a cathedral as a pile of stones which is crowned with a spire” 👈 that’s a quote from the book, but it describes THIS book as precisely as possible.
Besides the plot, there is an incomparable atmosphere that the author created, and which you enter with such ease from the very first lines 🥰🥰🥰
The book is mysticism, the book is a puzzle, the book is a labyrinth.
Here there is everything:
🕵️♂️ detective touches
🧟♂️ murders
👩✈️ investigation
💓 love
💫 secrets stretching from a distant past.
…And mystical Barcelona❤ a city I’ve been dreaming of for years, before visit it 😊
❣ “I wanted to hate Clara, but could not. Truly, hatred is a gift one acquires only with age.”
❣ “That year autumn covered Barcelona with an airy blanket of dry leaves which, rustling, wound like a snake through the streets. The day was wonderful: a clear azure sky, a fresh cool breeze smelling of autumn and sea.”
❣ “Most of all I loved Barcelona in October, when one is irresistibly drawn to wander, and everyone becomes wiser thanks to the water from the Canaletas fountain, which at that time wondrously does not smell of chlorine.”
❣ “Barcelona is a sorceress, understand, Daniel?”
It really is 🫶
So, ho get this book and plan your trip to Barcelona 🥰