by David Forrest · Columna · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478090853
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«I al meu nebot Albert li deixo l'illa» is the novel by David Forrest, published by Columna in paperback (201 pages, in Catalan).
A narrator leaves his nephew Albert an island he won in a poker game against Fatty Hagan. With this inheritance as a starting point, the novel addresses chance, family relationships, and the implications of owning a territory won by accident.
The work is part of the Col·lecció Moderna collection and its first edition was published on 1 March 2002.
For readers of contemporary fiction who want to read in Catalan a novel whose starting point is an inheritance received in a poker game.
David Forrest is a pen-name used by English novelists Robert Forrest-Webb and David Eliades to write four books, And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game (1969), The Great Dinosaur Robbery (1970), After Me, the Deluge (1972), and The Undertaker's Dozen (1974). These books featured tight plotlines and riotous humor, touching at the same time some serious topics: The Great Dinosaur Robbery and Nephew deal with the Cold War, After Me, the Deluge with religion.
