by Javier Cercas · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408237969
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«Terra Alta» is the crime novel by Javier Cercas, published by Booket in paperback in 2021 (384 pages, in Spanish).
A crime shakes Terra Alta: the owners of Gráficas Adell are found murdered after being tortured. Melchor Marín, a young policeman from Barcelona and a voracious reader, takes on the case. His investigation collides with a past he thought was buried. The novel weaves intrigue and thriller with a reflection on law, justice, and revenge.
First installment of the Terra Alta novel series, featuring Melchor Marín, and winner of the Planeta Novel Prize 2019.
Suitable for readers of crime and contemporary fiction interested in plots with moral dilemmas.
Javier Cercas Mena is a Spanish writer and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Girona, Spain. Awards he has won for his novels include the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Soldiers of Salamis, and the European Book Prize for The Impostor.
