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A stifled scream of terror. A novice, violently murdered, hangs from a string on the well of the Monastery of Santa María, in Pedralbes. Young Alamanda keeps carefully a letter that contains a decisive secret for Catalonia’s future.

During the years after the Revolta dels Segadors (Harvester Uprising), noble men and bourgeoisies suffer the economic consequences of the war against Castilla. What does this letter explain that all Catalan people are depending on it?  Pedralbes’ Monastery and the Barcelona from XVIIth century are the settings of an amazing history of love and intrigue.

Amat is an extraordinarily beautiful teenager. His new teacher at school, an elegant Hungarian woman who arouses passions among her pupils and fellow teachers, decides to help him. Erzsebet, around 40 years old, seduces his protégé, who comes from a broken family. She introduces him to a world of refinement, sophistication and sensuality.

Erzsebet, whose past and origins of her fortune are unknown, decides to turn her protégé into a perfect human being. However, Amat soon discovers there is a dark side to his luck which brings about unfortunate consequences. It all begins when he discovers there was a Hungarian countess called Erzsebet Bathory in the XVI century, who bathed in the blood of sacrificed virgins to maintain her youth.

When Amat falls in love with a school mate, his protector becomes a threat and forces him to escape, which could be the ruin of the three of them…

Published in Spanish by Martinez Roca and Catalan by Columna.

In a beautiful room in Formentera, a man speaks softly to a woman all night long, while she’s asleep.

She is Umiko, a young Japanese who teaches meditation and who believes in the power of spiritual healing. Even though she has cancer, she does not hesitate to defy traditional medicine. Umiko has passed through a though learning at a Zen monastery and is convinced that if emotions can make her ill, then they can also heal her.

The man, full of doubts about her extravagant methods, talks to her about illness and spontaneous remissions, about the world of self help, personal growth and meditation. But Umiko asks more of the night, something more than words.

“El Silenci” is a novel about the great power of confidence. In an extreme situation, when you’ve got nothing to lose, what could you be capable of? Published in Catalan and Spanish by Grup 62

La venjança del bandoler is a novel that narrates the story of Josep Pujol i Barraca, Boquica, son of a humble family of traginers (carriers), that will become a famous bandit in Catalonia during the end of the XVIIIth century and the beginning of the XIXth, who will fight for his freedom and his people during the French War. And he does it from both sides, which will give him the nickname of Caragirat (Twisted-face). At first, he will fight against the Frenchs, then against the powerful men, Spanish and Catalan corrupts, that forsake the regular people that fight and die for their country, and finally, as a bandit, against both blocs. That turns him into a hated target aimed for all the factions in the conflict. A bounty hunter, a hunter of bandits, and an old friend of Boquica, is commissioned to capture him, in a chase that is also a story of betrayed friendship.

The novel allows us to get immersed in this period and to live how was life before and during the war: the life of the traginers, the black market and the contraband; the personal relations marked by the religion’s influence; the quotidian habits, the traditions, the superstitions, the witchcraft… The whole world in which Boquica lived and fought.

El secreto de los Hoffman is a poetic, coral and introspective portrait that tells the reader about a small universe.

Constanza has just died after a long illness. The day of her burial, memories crowd near her grave. There is her daughter, Marina, her grandchildren Lucas and Veronica, and her husband, Rodolfo Hoffman, a singer who escaped from Argentina twenty years ago, trying to avoid an event that changed their future.

Rodolfo knows that he is reaching the end of his life. Therefore, he decides that it’s the moment to try and get back what they lost in the past. But doing this will uncover the secret that changed their lives forever.

Between past memories and future hopes, this intense story of hidden feelings captivates the reader with characters that move on together in order to get over pain and loneliness. This is a novel that tells the adventure of trying to believe in the love that really matters.