Jordi Sebastià (Burjassot, 1966) has worked as a journalist and has also served as mayor of his hometown and as a Member of the European Parliament. He has published books of reportage (Lágrimas de algodón de polvo y de silencio (‘Tears of Powdered Cotton and Silence’), La dignidad y la azada (‘Dignity and the Hoe’)), essays (La trampa cosmopolita (‘The Cosmopolitan Trap’), Cuaderno de la Europa triste (‘Notes on a Sad Europe’)) and the short story collection Azucares (‘Sugars’). He has translated the Portuguese poets Eugénio de Andrade and Sophia de Mello. He has written scripts and has directed the medium-length film Un día como otro (‘A Day Like Any Other’) and the documentary La Fifla (‘Fifla’). In 1999 he published his first novel, Un asunto de periferia (‘A Peripheral Matter’), whose protagonist now returns with this European matter.