by Carme Riera · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429774580
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«Les darreres paraules» is the novel by Carme Riera, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (176 pages, in Catalan).
The novel focuses on Archduke Lluís Salvador d'Habsburg, cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph and of Sissi. In a found manuscript he confesses his loves and his vision of the events that changed Europe, from Mayerling to Sarajevo, and his life as a traveller and naturalist in love with Mallorca, where he created a small kingdom far from conventions.
Winner of the BBVA Sant Joan Prize 2016 for Catalan literature. Published in 2016 in the El Balancí collection.
For readers of literary fiction interested in early 20th-century Europe and the figure of Archduke Lluís Salvador.
Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
