"It's impossible to write about people if you don't love them"

Milena Busquets and Gregori Civera

Milena Busquets is sitting on a terrace in the sun.

There are twenty degrees in Barcelona.

The scene seems idyllic, almost springtime, but within an hour, at three thirty in the afternoon, all the bars in Catalonia will close and the city, despite the good weather, will sink into a dreadful sleeplessness caused by the pandemic .

Busquets asks for some asparagus with prawns.

"Are we going to eat just this?"

He looks up: "No, the mayonnaise is missing."

The writer publishes

(Anagrama)

next Wednesday

, which will be released two days earlier in Catalan (Amsterdam).

Six years have passed since the ...

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