Translation Rights TQE / Strolling with my Mother

This book is a touching homage to the building projects that surround Barcelona and upon which the city has turned its back. Through an autobiographical landscape that is interchangeable with all cities around the world, the author discovers personal scenes as well as epic and moving stories. He does this while he strolls with his mother along the outskirts of the city, the edge of the river, the old power station and other emblematic places that belong to an old and mistreated suburb. He is met with a geography that has been sculpted by the battles of its citizens and with an urban space that has been won over by the effort of the first immigrants.

A personal memoir and an urgent chronicle with its beautiful alloy of humor and poetry., this book also seeks to settle the score and to search for an identity that, in the end, the author will discover in the voice of his mother. Paseos con mi madre talks about the social conquests and defeats that are now discussed again as the state of social well-being is being questioned.

Javier Pérez Andújar (Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona, 1965) studied Spanish Philology in the University of Barcelona and is the author of Catalanes todos (All Catalans), Las 15 visitas de Franco a Cataluña (Franco’s 15 Visits to Catalonia), and Salvador Dalí. A la conquista de lo Irracional (Salvador Dalí. The Conquest of the Irrational). He has published, as the editor and anthologist, a book of short horror stories Vosotros los que leéis aún estáis entre los vivos (You Who Read Are Still Among the Living), and has translated into Spanish the comic book Astérix El cielo se nos cae encima (Asterix, the Sky Is Falling Down Upon Us). He was editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Taifa for some time, founder of the fanzine Flandis Mandis, and a columnist in Mondo Brutto. As a journalist, he has collaborated with Ajoblanco, Rock de Lux and Primera Línea, among other publications, as well as with the radio stations Ona Catalana and Radio Nacional de España (Ràdio 4), and on the literary TV program Saló de Lectura. He is currently a collaborator of El País and of L’Hora del Lector, a literary program on Catalan television.