La familia de mi padre

Synopsis of La familia de mi padre

In 'La familia de mi padre', Lolita Bosch reconstructs the history of her paternal family from her memories. This book is a journey through the sentimental geography of Barcelona, where the secrets of an influential family are intertwined. It is a reconstruction of the author's origins and a tribute to her father, beginning with the memory of his death. Bosch reconstructs the family tree with documents, testimonies, and fictional elements, until reaching the moment when the last Romulus of a saga learns to say 'dad'. The narration goes back to the first Romulus, the author's great-great-grandfather, who was a soldier in Cuba and mayor of Barcelona, stopping at her great-grandfather, an art collector and passionate lover, and at her grandfather, a peculiar man who forgot the names of his granddaughters. Everything converges towards her father and her brother, the last Romulus of the family, accompanying the former until his final farewell.