The Street of the Three Beds - Caminals, Roser
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When Roser Caminals was ten years old her family moved to a neighborhood of grid-patterned streets lined with trees and broad sidewalks; but it is the old city, with its potpourri of blind lottery peddlers, sailors from all over the world walking up from the harbor, fishmongers, tourists, door-to-door salesmen, and a variety shady characters thrown into the mix that finds its way into her fiction. The rich texture of the street life Roser Caminals witnessed during her formative years remains a powerful allure to the mature writer. Inspired by a popular urban legend about the white slave trade…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
When Roser Caminals was ten years old her family moved to a neighborhood of grid-patterned streets lined with trees and broad sidewalks; but it is the old city, with its potpourri of blind lottery peddlers, sailors from all over the world walking up from the harbor, fishmongers, tourists, door-to-door salesmen, and a variety shady characters thrown into the mix that finds its way into her fiction. The rich texture of the street life Roser Caminals witnessed during her formative years remains a powerful allure to the mature writer. Inspired by a popular urban legend about the white slave trade and the disappearance of a young woman in a lingerie store, the novel explores the connections between Barcelona's criminal underground and its echelons of power. Named after a real street in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, The Street of the Three Beds reveals the colorful and corrupt hidden life of the city. 'Roser Caminals is a wonderful novelist. Her Catalan street's memories remind me of Isaac Bashevis Singer's about his Polish Krochmalna Street or Elias Canetti's in his native Bulgaria.' Alain Saint-Saëns, novelist and literary critic.
Autorenporträt
Roser Caminals earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Barcelona. A native of Barcelona, Spain, she is the author of six novels and one non-fiction book. Her work, published in three languages, has been featured at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1996 she won an award for Les herbes secrètes (The Secret Herbs). Since then she has received critical acclaim in the Spanish media, as well as favorable commentary in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada and in some English language publications. Her first novel, Once Remembered, Twice Lived, was published in the U.S.; her turn-of-the-century Barcelona trilogy and a book of memoirs of her life in America, in Spain. The Street of the Three Beds is the first translated volume of the author's Barcelona trilogy, El carrer dels tres llits, La petita mort and La dona de mercuri.Roser Caminals was awarded the 2021 BBVA Sant Joan Prize for her new novel in Catalan, Garbo parla.