Sant Jordi 2022 in Catalonia: last minute of the weather, the book signing and the stalls

The ‘black’ brigade assaults Passeig de Gràcia

Petros Markaris, Alicia Gimenez Bartlett, Rosa Ribas, Carles Porta, Carlos Zanon, Lawrence Silva, Naomi Trujillo Y Virginia Feito They have coincided by chance in one of the areas of the ‘superilla’ of Passeig de Gràcia. Before the storm fell, when the sun was still shining and a human tsunami ran through Passeig de Gràcia as if the pandemic had never existed -and the entire invention of the ‘superilla’ of Sant Jordi-, in a few meters, to the Diputació height, had concentrated, by incredible chance, a whole ‘noir’ ballpoint pen at the ready. There was the veteran Petros Márkaris, at 85 years old, non-stop signing ‘Cuarentena’, new accounts of his Sheriff Jaritos. However, the Greek writer did not expect what a woman who approached him told him and before whom her affable smile froze. She was Teresa, arrived from Mallorca. She asked him to dedicate a copy to his partner, Carme, who had died of covid and was a great admirer of his. Much affection poured into her signature, which she left him speechless before the wind broke loose and, after the first of the four storms, the squire from her publishing house urgently bought him a scarf. It was not a question of playing with health. Read here the complete chronicle of Ana Abella.

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