Desgranar

[Tyrn]

Hi,

Todavía recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevó por primera vez
a visitar el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Desgranaban los primeros días del
verano de 1945 y caminábamos por las calles de una Barcelona atrapada bajo
cielos de ceniza y un sol de vapor que se derramaba sobre la Rambla de Santa
Mónica en una guirnalda de cobre líquido.


All the meanings of the word are pretty straightforward, yet I'm still at a loss...

[Rusty]

This is metaphor. All the days of summer, considered as a whole, were passing by (crumbling away, ticking by (as can be said for the hours of a day)) one by one.

[Tyrn]

Thanks! I'm really happy that I've been through with Eso

Why una Barselona? In English it would have been the or nothing

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Originally Posted by Tyrn

Why una Barcelona? In English it would have been the or nothing

Because it's taking how the weather makes you perceive the city as if you were in an alternative version of it.


It would be the same in English:
- Cuando regresé a la ciudad, era un Chicago diferente del que yo recordaba.
When I came back to the city, it was a different Chicago than the one I remembered.

- Nos perdimos en Candem y déjame decirte que es un Londres que nunca ponen en los folletos para turistas.
We got lost in Candem and let me tell you that this is a London never depicted in the tourist brochures.

- Ciudad Gótica es una Nueva York muy tétrica, pero Metrópolis es una Nueva York luminosa y con cielos azules.
Gotham City is a gloomy New York, but Metropolis is a bright and blue-skied New York.