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El octavo clan (The Eighth Clan), a totally addictive novel

Nobody remembers how it happened, just that the waters rose and devoured everything. Only the highest buildings still stand out of the sea. Titanium, steel and glass that keep defying the ocean, and the dangerous creatures that live in it.

Inside these towers, in the city now known as Nyork, seven big clans are in dispute over the cherished “dry ground” — as well as over the even more scarce resources. It’s a fight to death.

In the shadow of these seven big clans, however, there is yet another one — one that everyone believed exterminated, but whose last members are refusing to succumb; a clan that, in its struggle for survival, comes across the opportunity to change everything, to bring back hope to a world where nobody dares hoping for anything anymore.

That is the eighth clan.

Un hijo is a novel full of tenderness and intrigue for the readers of Una madre and El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche.

Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile. He has only one friend. So far, so good. But this quiet facade hides the most fragile world, and a mystery to solve. The pieces of the puzzlle are a father in crisis, an absent mother, an intrigued teacher, and a psychologist who tries to understand what Guille hides.

A choral novel where there are mixed feelings, silences, twists and an enthralling mystery.

The first book I ever managed to finish

One, two, and up to three days without the reader opening the book. What was happening? Had he left for good prince Medialuna and Koriat, the seven headed dragon? Had he forgotten them? All the characters in the story, even the book marker, were beginning to fear the worst; only the prince was keeping his calm. But, how were they going to charm the reader to keep on reading if they were not magicians?

Sonia, the hippie in the sandals; Marçal, the nationalist and flirt; Uri, the hipster studying film-making; and Bet, the snob from the best part of town, are four very, very different kids. Most probably, they would have never met if it wasn’t for Fidel Marti, the guitar teacher they have in common. That leads them to form a band, to revive the best moments of the Catalan folk movement, while getting involved in a tangle of unlikely liaisons. Soon they will realize that nothing is what it seems, and that it’s never too late (or too soon) to fall madly in love.