Ediciones B 2024

A BOOKSELLER WHO MUST FLEE FASCISM

A city on the verge of changing forever.

A tribute to booksellers and their power to save us.

Madrid, 1934. Winds of change blow through Spain during the Second Republic when Bárbara, a young German woman who managed to escape Berlin after the Nazi party’s electoral victory, opens a small bookstore.

It becomes a place to dream of a free and hopeful future, but the outbreak of the Civil War threatens to destroy everything Bárbara has built. It will be her love for literature—and for a young Republican—that keeps her clinging to a country descending into a spiral of hatred and terror, one she knows all too well, forcing her to fight for her life once again.

A thrilling and meticulously documented novel by one of Spain’s most widely translated and read authors. A story of hope in the face of intolerance. And above all, an undeniable homage to literature.