by Javier Cercas · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788418572111
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«Terra Alta» is the crime novel by Javier Cercas, published by labutxaca in paperback (384 pages, in Catalan).
In the region of Terra Alta, the owners of Gráficas Adell are found murdered. Melcior Marín, a young policeman and voracious reader from Barcelona, investigates the case with a dark past behind him and a new life with his daughter Cosette. The novel reflects on law, justice and the search for a place in the world.
First instalment of the «Terra Alta» series, winner of the Premio Planeta 2019. Catalan translation by Núria Parés Sellarès.
For readers of crime fiction and police thrillers, with a protagonist marked by literature and the weight of the past.
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.
