A novel about the will to be happy at any cost, embodied in the extraordinary career of musician Xavier Cugat.

"Optimists see everything through rose-colored glasses, and pessimists see everything through black. Between these two extremes, we live surrounded by illusions, dreams, hopes, misunderstandings, envy, and deceit..." With these words, the narrator of Confetti reveals his reasons for writing: to demonstrate that much of human existence is a tailor-made fiction. And as a show business journalist, he finds the ideal inspiration in Xavier Cugat. Born on January 1, 1900, as if the randomness of the calendar were a harbinger of success, the Catalan musician dedicated his entire life to being happy and famous at any cost, always thanks to what he was passionate about: caricatures, orchestras, films, marriages to beautiful and very young women, Chihuahuas…

With prose as elegant and energetic as Fred Astaire's footsteps, touched by a subtle sense of humor, Jordi Puntí takes the reader on a journey from New York to Hollywood, from Havana to the Ritz Hotel in Barcelona, ​​throughout the turbulent and fantastical 20th century. Confetti, which won the Sant Jordi Prize in 2023—one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in Catalan literature—portrays the adventures of two men who were friends perhaps out of convenience, in a hall of mirrors where imagination coexists with the will to be immortal, eternal. At parties, they toast and sing under a shower of confetti that fills them with joy, but the next morning they find it on their clothes, in their hair (or wig), like crumbs of lost happiness. Through them, we discover that when reality doesn't match biography, it can always be reinvented and improved in a novel.