A gritty noir set in Barcelona's savage underbelly
Epi Dalmau is a desperate man. Early one morning, he carries a duffle
bag into a dingy bar in a rough neighborhood of Barcelona. Four other
people are in the bar: his brother Alex, his good friend Tanveer, the
bartender, and a Pakistani man who wandered in to use the restroom. Epi
grabs a hammer out of his duffle bag and attacks Tanveer. After a brief
struggle and a couple of blows, Tanveer lies dead on the floor and Epi
flees the bar.
Alex and the bartender plan to find and protect Epi, while blaming the
murder on the unfortunate Pakistani man, who was simply in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Meanwhile, Epi is hunting for Tiffany, the
woman of his dreams and the reason behind the murder. What he'll do when
he finds her, and what drove him to brutal violence are the subjects of
Carlos Zann's gritty, unflinching novel, set in a city tourists never
see.
The Barcelona Brothers is a hard look at what people are capable of
when they have no other options, and a portrait of a modern,
multicultural Barcelona.
