"The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--

Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.

"Luis Torralba es un niño de ocho años que vive en una ciudad gallega a comienzos del siglo xx. Sus padres están separados y pertenecen a mundos completamente distintos: su madre a los ambientes burgueses y clericales de la ciudad, con sus días previsibles y tranquilos; por el contrario, su padre es un pequeño aristócrata librepensador, un poco calavera, que vive en un destartalado pazo en las afueras, donde no faltan las tertulias con sus amistades...