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Critics heap praise on Cuban-born Valdés' second novel: The "rambunctious new novel is an appetizingly rich stew, full of the varied flavors of Latin culture … sumptuous …exuberantly translated" (Anderson Tepper, the New York Times Book Review ). Spanning 50 years in the life of a country girl who moves to Havana, the book is "a messy, passionate indictment of Fidel Castro's Cuba, packed with grotesque caricatures, implausible crises and generous dollops of magic realism" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). (Read the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times .)
In a gorgeous medieval palace at c/ Montcada, 20, Espai Barroc is a sumptuous, pricey bar that looks like something out of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, the Peter Greenaway film.
The sumptuous summer palace was built in the second half of the 18th century as an official working residence for the royal family.
Nearby, the sumptuous, 16th-century Igreja de São Roque, features a small museum of sacred art.
Inside the pool area the walls are ivy-clad and there is some sumptuous statuary, but even more interesting than the architecture of the baths is the bizarre sight of groups of men playing chess while immersed in warm water (their boards are supported on small jetties protruding into the pool).