The young Belgian Gregoire Paulet is a writer of the new generation, who grew up not so much on literature as on cinema. Pole writes a book like a film is made. In his debut novel, Sleepless Madrid, he captured one night in the life of the capital of Spain. This is a loving look at the city in which the paths of numerous characters intersect - before us is a gambling journalist and a sentimental policeman, a drinking publisher and a disappointed philosopher, an operatic baritone and a street tramp, a young hairdresser and an aspiring writer, from under whose guise the author himself slyly winks at us . A big city, a tangle of streets, a tangle of destinies, and a helicopter hovers over the city, in which another man in love with Madrid, the great film director Pedro Almodóvar, is filming his movie with a real movie camera.

The brilliant debut of Gregoire Paulet captivates from the first pages. Having read the book, we close it with the feeling that we have lived twenty lives in this one magical Madrid night... And we close it with regret, because it is unlikely that we will have to experience another such extraordinary night, in this whirlwind that carried us and Madrid away. “Suar »