In the form of a memoir, the fifteen chapters comprising Una educació portray the worries and carelessness of a young Catalan man in London in the seventies. In his most personal book, Miquel Berga ironically and compassionately depicts the mishaps of a young man with no resources who learns to live and survive in an environment and a culture that are perceived as a friendly refuge, far from the miseries and turmoil caused by the agony of the Franco regime in Spain and the beginning of the transition to democracy. The situations and characters that appear in the book are the distillation of a sentimental education, but also a delightful recreation of the English hours of a Catalan man who arrives in London on a plane as a stowaway passenger, convinced that this was enough back then: “I was twenty years old and I had two telephone numbers.” “Reading Berga, we might even believe that we are, at times, somewhat civilized.” Vicenç Pagès “Miquel Berga is one of the greatest authors—once you’ve read one of his books, you won’t be able to do without his sharp look.” Antoni Puigverd “His warm prose and his smooth, undulating style are placed at the service of an epicurean attitude towards life that allows him to deflate the balloon of stiffness, fatuity and pedantry and to treat the reader face to face with total honesty.” Xavier Pla