"Monumental" Guardian
An instant bestseller in ten languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man's life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony.
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in ten languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony.
At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's, Adria Ardevol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father's study become the centre of his world; where a treasured Storioni violin retains the shadows of a crime committed many years earlier. His mother, a cold, distant and pragmatic woman leaves him to his solitary games, full of unwanted questions. An accident ends the life of his enigmatic father, filling Adria's world with guilt, secrets and deeply troubling mysteries that take him years to uncover and driving him deep into the past where atrocities are methodically exposed and examined.
Gliding effortlessly between centuries, and at the same time providing a powerful narrative that is at once shocking, compelling, mysterious, tragic, humorous and gloriously readable, Confessions reaches a crescendo that is not only unexpected but provides one of the most startling denouements in contemporary literature. Confessions is a consummate masterpiece in any language, with an ending that will not just leave you thinking, but quite possibly change the way you think forever.
Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781910050576
Number of pages: 760
Weight: 700 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 56 mm
Not only a profound meditation on evil but a dazzling work of imagination - Scotland on Sunday
Monumental - Guardian
Hitting the jackpot with Confessions, Cabré's is a story of European history from the Inquisition to Auschwitz - Figaro
Its complexity turns Confessions into a piece of writing that has the power to influence our view of the world - a quality belonging to the best of literature' - El Mundo
The narrative unfolds with such creativity and mastery ... perfection from an author who has reached the very highest level of excellence in his craft. This book has earned its place alongside the classics - Joan Josep Isern
Absolutely captivating - Andrea Camilleri
A long book, not for the fainthearted, but worth the effort. This book caught my attention because it was set in a number of different eras, something which seems to be in vogue among Spanish authors of today. However... More
I loved reading it, it is long but it kept me trying to find time to reading. Interesting stories, told in a very clever way. Totally recommend it.
Confessions is the story of Adrìa Ardèvol, a man of sixty losing his memory to dementia, as he re-examines his life, from his lonely childhood parented by a cold and indifferent mother and an overbearing father,... More
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