by Joan Garí · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788429760460
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«La balena blanca» is the novel by Joan Garí published by Edicions 62 in 2007, in hardback (238 pages, in Catalan).
A senior official of the Valencian government receives a terminal lung cancer diagnosis when his party is at the height of its power. The illness confronts him with death and triggers an unprecedented introspection; the novel builds a biting satire of conservative Valencian politics and of the relationship between power and death.
It belongs to the «El Balancí» collection from Edicions 62. It won the Premi Joanot Martorell for narrative in 2007.
