After forty thousand bombs and bullets, no home in Barcelona remained unscathed. That ruined and silent Barcelona that continued to resist is the one described, with his characteristic precision, by Albert Garcia Espuche (Barcelona, ​​1951), in After (Símbolo Editores). Through the eyes of a notary, the historian, architect, and novelist wanders the streets, enters houses, and sifts through inventories to discuss what happened after September 11, 1714. Without the historian's research, which has produced a vast body of work on the 16th and 17th centuries, and his interpretation of social, economic, and cultural life, the Born archaeological site would have been preserved. Garcia Espuche explains that he cannot stop writing and continues to delve passionately into the city's past. For the first time, he co-authored the book with his wife, the art historian Núria Rivero, who died in 2024.