Leading us up and down Las Ramblas, from the heights of Montjuïc to the fading evening light of the Gothic Quarter, the book also touches on the novels and writers that have described Barcelona, the legacy of Antoni Gaudí, the elusive perspective of Pepe Carvalho, and the authorÆs lost memories in his home district of Horta-Guinardó. Zanón paints an intimate portrait of the city while artist Lara Costafreda illustrates the human, cosmopolitan side of a mixed-heritage, cultured, contradictory capital that exudes an air of perpetual change.
