The Last Dream

An intimate and mischievous story collection, bursting with desire and playful humour, from legendary film director Pedro Almod�var'A major literary talent' KAVEH AKBAR, author of Martyr!'Akin to a Spanish Angela Carter' TELEGRAPHThe Last Dream brings together twelve stories from legendary film director Pedro Almod�var's personal archive. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almod�var's world, together they reflect his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist. Ranging from a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almod�var's mother in `The Last Dream', to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these mischievous stories delight and surprise. `A heady mix of factual and fictitious, befitting of one of cinema's most imaginative storytellers' OBSERVER`Keenly observed and spiritually sumptuous' EMPIRETranslated by Frank Wynne*Readers love THE LAST DREAM*`Dive into a world where vibrant characters and deep emotions come to life on the page'`An intriguing blend of the personal, thoughts, his remarkable professional film career and more from the superb Pedro Almod�var'`Colourful characters and situations, a little madness. Warmth, humour and strangeness'