La Petita Mort

by Roser Caminals

Basada en un crimen real.
Corre el año 1920 y el estallido de una bomba en el popular cabaret Pompeia, sito en el Paralelo de Barcelona, propicia el encuentro del tímido Andreu Nadal y la artista de circo Sabina Lombarda. A partir de este hecho el joven deberá indagar en su propio pasado para comprender mejor el presente. Caminals vincula esta historia con la de un grupo de contrabandistas, que prepara el que será uno de los sucesos más sonados de principios del siglo XX, para pintar un impresionante retrato de la Barcelona anarquista y revolucionaria, opulenta y burguesa, miserable en los bajos fondos, y llena de vida.

Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Roser Caminals-Heath (b. 1956), a Barcelona native, is a literary translator and prize-winning novelist. Caminals-Heath earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Barcelona. She won an award from the Spanish embassy for her English translation of Emilia Pardo Bazan’s The House of Ulloa, and her own work has been published in three languages. In 1996, her novel Les herbes secretes (The secret herbs) won first prize in the Jocs Florals de la Diàspora contest, for expatriate authors writing in Catalan. She has also published a nonfiction book, La seducció americana (The American seduction), which draws on her experiences in the United States, where she has lived since 1981. The Street of the Three Beds is the first in a trilogy that depicts Barcelona at the turn of the twentieth century. Caminals-Heath is a professor of Spanish at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, and is married to author William Heath.

Reviews

[Bianca Palucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great read! I read this book for a Spanish Criminology course and had the opportunity to speak with the author about it afterwards!