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Homage to Barcelona
Picador Collection (Related to this series)
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- Narrator
- Stanley Townsend
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 11 September 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe’s greatest cities – a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife.
It moves from the story of the city’s founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudí, Miró, Picasso, Casals and Dalí. It also explores the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tóibín witnessed in the 1970s.
Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a unique Mediterranean port and an adopted home.
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Critics Review
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Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man.
Observer
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Having lived in Barcelona off and on since the 70s, Toibin knows all the fascinations of its sensuous Mediterranean history and lifestyle and “the most precious jewels in the city’s treasury of bars” . . . Tóibín is the perfect guide.
Chicago Tribune
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Details
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- Narrator
- Stanley Townsend
- Duration
- 9 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781035067091
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Travel writing, European history
Synopsis
Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe’s greatest cities – a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife.It moves from the story of the city’s founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudí, Miró, Picasso, Casals and Dalí. It also explores the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tóibín witnessed in the 1970s.Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a unique Mediterranean port and an adopted home.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
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