The Lonely Hearts Club

"The singles scene of Barcelona's lonely low life. Sweet and seedy." -- "Elle"

"An expertly constructed parable of human loneliness, brilliantly disguised as an extremely funny book." -- "Philadelphia Inquirer"

"It's funny, dirty, sporadically grotesque and set in Barcelona. What more do you want?" -- "The Face"

A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his life come a Perez Galdos widow, a dwarf poet, a gay barman.

"The Lonely Hearts Club "is a novel of Barcelona. Its people and its places, the Ramblas, the Plaza Real, the Barrio Chino, are brought to life in a book that is outrageously funny but never loses sympathy with its characters.