Touch record change for a Javier Fences that we were more accustomed to fiction made chronic and to the chronicle adorned with that suggestive literary setting of the intrahistories that make up the mosaic of the most transcendent realities.
No doubt this novel Terra Alta, awarded with the Planet award 2019, It seems the natural flow into the creative flow of the Catalan author. Its great component of a suspense novel, becomes a new natural channel, opened from new creative torrents. Because Javier Cercas' ability to generate narrative tension in each of his works that transits both sides of the real and the fictional, has made him one of the leading authors of today.
When two businessmen and partners appear murdered in a scene as clearly defined as the Tarragona Highlands, Melchor Marín gives himself up to the cause of the resolution of the case in his role as a policeman.
Except that the discoveries around the torture and death of the owners of Gráficas Adell, awaken in him old ghostly echoes of other times. The deaths of the businessmen do not point to possible economic confrontations but to other aspects that are much more dangerous if possible.
In the haven of peace of the remote town where Melchor has been able to rebuild himself, he had been able to bury old tribulations, until today. In tune with a universal literary reference such as the novel Los Miserables, Melchor Mauri is caught up in dilemmas with aromas between the existential and the essentially romantic, that which exposes the human being to moral dilemmas, ghosts and fears.
But her new life is well worth fighting for her without quarter. Neither his wife, nor even less his daughter Cosette should know aspects of his past determined to be exhumed now. Right from the turning point of the crime that has shocked the entire region.
As Melchior hunts down the assassins, he has to come up with his own plan to escape his dark days. And perhaps in the end he will have to account with his past, like Jean Valjean. He is also the protagonist of his particular novel in which life exposed him to injustice and guilt. And he too will seek above all to survive and defend the little but essential that he has managed to build for the better in his life.
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