"A mixture of urban guide, personal account, historical erudition and juicy anecdotes, Trapiello's Madrid is a vast enjoyment even for those of us who are not from the place and perhaps especially for those who are not from the place and are, damned virus, trembling to visit it again. "FERNANDO ARAMBURU

"I seldom recommend books to my presumed readers, but in this case I'm going to make an exception. Read it before you become that 'dust on the way to the stars'. A beautiful book, wonderfully written and enormously entertaining. "MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

The story of a life and a city, MADRID, told in a prodigious, original and passionate way by someone who arrived there fifty years ago like so many others: trying his luck. This book is also the biography of its author, intertwined with water journeys, slums and nobles, with kings, republics and dictatorships, splendour and misery, peace and wars and the Movida.... And it is above all the proclamation of a great virtue reiterated in this masterly and unique book: the hospitality of those who live in Madrid.

Publisher: Destino