Eva Baltasar is a finalist for the 2023 Booker International Prize. Her latest novel, 'Sunset and fascination', is about the dispossessed of the city.

'We have normalized real estate violence and turned houses into impassable stone walls,' she says. 'Fascination is transformed into a gothic act of high mystical voltage for that protagonist,' says Baltasar, who lives in the Cardedeu countryside with her two daughters and his dog (Mali)