A widower finds a second chance and a new language after an unexpected proposal. Truth and fiction are abstracted in Gaud 's surreal Barcelona. And a young film enthusiast reunites with his first unrequited love in an epic novella that spans decades and lifetimes. Written and widely published across three decades, these are stories of passion and longing, the foreign and the familiar, the transcendent and the profane-at home with Greek choral music,...