A Dreamed Life: Novel

Two young men. One name. A friendship that will define their lives - with an utterly different ending for each. Barcelona,1989.On the night the Wall falls and the word changes, Jordi, an extroverted medical student who has everything and feels nothing, meets Jordi, a tender, self-effacing lover of old cinema who has almost nothing and feels everything. What begins as a chance encounter at a party becomes the great friendship of their lives, lived out on a Barcelona rooftop over long nights of wine, laughter, and talk of dreams, fate, and the movies. As the eighties give way to a new world - the '92 Olympics, the collapse of old certainties - the two friends come to know themselves better, while the people around them prove to be bound together in ways none of them suspect. Told in nineteen chapters, each named after a classic film, A Dreamed Life is a nostalgic, deeply cinematic novel about the beauty and the danger of dreaming - and about the difference between the friend who learns to dream freely and the one who becomes a slave to his own perfect visions. For lovers of Cinema Paradiso and The Dreamers - and for readers who loved the Barcelona of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind.