Barcelona – Order and Silence

Historical fiction book cover set in 1920s Barcelona featuring a military officer, an anarchist couple, and the Sagrada Família in a dramatic cityscape, symbolizing political repression, love, and resistance under dictatorship.Back cover of a historical novel set in Barcelona 1923 showing a lone figure walking through a smoky street with Sagrada Família in the background, alongside synopsis text about dictatorship, anarchists, and social tension.

Barcelona, 1923. The city has gone quiet.
But beneath the silence, a deadly battle begins to take shape.

Miguel Primo de Rivera seizes power, and the chaos in Barcelona fades. Rebel leaders disappear. Brutal protests end. Order returns to the streets. Alejandro Rivas, a hardened military officer, enforces this new order. He lost his right arm in the Rif War and carries its scars every day. He now serves the regime and hunts those who resist it.

Mateo Vidal and Isabel Torres refuse to surrender.
Mateo, a passionate anarchist, stands between love and revolution. He plans bold acts against a regime he hates. Isabel, a quiet bookbinder and his partner, sees the cost of their choices. She fears what their cause may demand from them.

Narcís Oller once shaped stories. Now he watches. He sits in the cafés of the old city and records what others ignore. He knows the silence hides more than peace.

Rivas tightens his control. Mateo and Isabel struggle to survive. Oller observes a city that looks calm but burns beneath the surface. Anger and hope still live in its shadows. Every choice carries a price.