El barri de la Plata

Publication language: Catalan
Year: 2018
Pages: 232
Cover: Paperback
Format: 14 x 21,3 cm
ISBN City Council: 978-84-9156-078-4
Publishing ISBN: 978-84-16853-16-8

Author/s: Julià Guillamon
Co-edition with: L'Avenç
Collection: Barcelona City and Neighbourhoods

Imatge de les pàgines interiors del llibre 'El barri de la Plata'

The neighbourhood of La Plata, set between Rambla del Poblenou, the cemetery and the railway tracks, is the neighbourhood of the people who emigrated from Valencia to Barcelona: an island amidst factories and workshops which became the home of working class people. The Plata neighbourhood is also a mental space where the main character of the book spends his childhood, dominated by the cultural shock between the arty Catalanism of his mother and the Spanish-speaking immigration of his father, between paid holidays and an anarchist past, between the determination to get ahead in life and the impossibility to do so.

Society

City

History

Neighbourhood

Immigration

Poblenou

Sant Martí