Things That Happen to You in Barcelona When You're Thirty

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Pub Date Jul 17 2012 | Archive Date May 31 2013
Open Road Media | Barcelona eBooks

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What happens when you turn thirty and still don't know what you want to be when you grow up? In this witty and sharply observed portrait of a generation, lost thirtysomethings grapple with, and avoid, the responsibilities of adulthood

On the morning after celebrating her thirtieth birthday in Barcelona, a journalist wakes up to a hangover-and a magicianin her bed-and wonders if she's too old to be living as though she was still twenty years old. Her artist friend, Blai, has already immortalized the rest of their group on canvas. There's man-eater Cati, drama-queen lesbian Neus, and wild-haired, poet turned teacher Nil. But as she enters a new decade of her life, the narrator remains "an idea for a painting that is yet to be defined."

When she's left looking after a stranger's bag, she looks inside and finds a love letter that fires her imagination. The search for the truth behind the romantic clue leads her on a hunt through the bars of Barcelona. If she doesn't believe in fate, why should she believe in the letter's Prince Charming? And what should she do if she finds him? In a precarious era of flat-packed, ready-to-assemble lifestyles and disposable relationships, surprising stories are never too far away.

What happens when you turn thirty and still don't know what you want to be when you grow up? In this witty and sharply observed portrait of a generation, lost thirtysomethings grapple with, and...


Advance Praise

“If you want something fresh, immerse yourself in Things That Happen to You in Barcelona When You’re Thirty by Llucia Ramis: a vertiginous delight that, like all good comedies . . . hides a depth charge.” —El Mundo
“Like a Woody Allen film: promiscuous young characters, an ‘intellectual’ protagonist plagued by confusion and neurosis . . . and lots of comic situations . . . Ramis succeeds in creating an amusing carousel.” —Bellver (Diario de Mallorca supplement)
“[Ramis] displays an extraordinary gift for observation, and deploys, with precision and efficiency, weapons loaded with irony, sarcasm, or satire . . . One of those novels that the reader devours with veritable passion . . . that entertains us as well as nourishes us.” —El Mundo
“The mix of irony and a certain fatalism helps to thread together a story halfway between humor and melancholy, in a universe of characters that could be found in a psychiatrist’s waiting room.” —ABC

“If you want something fresh, immerse yourself in Things That Happen to You in Barcelona When You’re Thirty by Llucia Ramis: a vertiginous delight that, like all good comedies . . . hides a depth...


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