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Dreams Of DalÃ
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 19 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Dreams of DalÃ, young Nicolás Miguel Valero lives in Figueres, Spain-a town that fears anything too loud, too bold, or too imaginative. Raised by a practical barber father and a quietly creative seamstress mother, Nico's world is one of rules and routines-until the morning he defaces the town's sacred Virgin Mary statue with a flamboyant Salvador Dalà mustache.
Punished and sent away to the rigid Brothers' Academy in Girona, Nico finds himself trapped in a place designed to erase difference. But inside its cold halls, he discovers hidden histories: a brush left behind by a long-forgotten student, a secret mural room, and his own unstoppable desire to dream with color and shape. Soon, visions of a dreamlike Dalà begin visiting him, challenging Nico to unlock his rebellious imagination.
As Nico's underground art spreads through the school like wildfire-statues smirk, ceilings shimmer, rules unravel-he inspires a quiet revolution among the boys. When the real Dalà arrives in a velvet cape to witness the magic firsthand, Nico is faced with a choice: continue conforming, or escape into a life where art and identity are inseparable.
A coming-of-age tale laced with surrealism, mischief, and lyrical defiance, Dreams of Dalà is a tender, defiant ode to those who see beauty where others see blasphemy-and who dare to make the world more vivid, one brushstroke at a time.
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