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THE CITY OF SMOKE

Genre: Contemporary novel
Topic: Fiction
Number of pages: 176

Ramon Cardona is a singer of boleros and tangos in the village fiestas. But it hasn’t always been this way.Twenty years earlier,before the war,he dreamed that all would be different:a happy future in a happy world.The war changed everything.The war forced him to leave his native city,Terrassa.And it also distanced him from Bruna.She remained there and suffered.For twenty years  she has done all she could to forget many things.Now she’s tired and she hasn’t moved from the neighbourhood.She has not seen Ramon ever again.One day in 1956,Ramon Cardona returns to the city.The city of factories and of the sirens,the city of immigration and work.He returns disillusioned and confused.He thinks he only returns to sing but he will find his past.The streets,the people,his own memory. Bruna also.In one day both Ramon’s and Bruna’s lives,indeed of all these characters,will change.Suddenly all that seemed forgotten will be unearthed.The blood,the deaths,the strength but also the rebellion,desire and love.

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