Rain over Madrid

Barba, Andrés

Rain Over Madrid is comprised by four novellas—“Fatherhood,” “Guile,” “Fidelity,” and “Shopping”—with a common leitmotiv: all of a sudden, someone is finally able to comprehend somebody else’s life. By featuring totally divergent characters in different settings, Barba in these stories tackles issues such as death, the inability to communicate feelings, the sudden eruption of love, fascination for the other, the architecture of desire and the fear of happiness