Y Viva España

So this year tomorrow we're off to sunny Spain.

Can anyone recommend fiction set in Barcelona? Or good Spanish fiction?

Can any of you remember which Patrick O'Brian novel is partly set in Gibraltar?

Positive Things for Thursday

1. Turned on the radio tonight and was swept away by Osvaldo Golijov's opera based on the life and work of Federico García Lorca, Ainadamar. Not to everyone's taste, I shouldn't think: very Latin-American, very modern, very varied. Want.
Damn, 'La Pasión según San Marcos' on at the Barbican Feb 24. Next Friday. Hmmm.

If anyone could somehow record the 'listen again' for me, I'd be ever so grateful.

2. Brilliant sunshine lighting silver birches against a jet-black wall of cloud

3. This time tomorrow, BA permitting, I'll be in Barcelona.