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A sweeping Spanish novel that takes the reader from the Inquisition to Franco. 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
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Confessions, Jaume Cabré
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Confessions
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jaume Cabré
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 751
- ISBN10
- 1910050571
- ISBN13
- 9781910050576
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Military Fiction, Relationships, Wars, Death, Secrets, Memories, Jews, Mysterious, Mysteries, Spanish Literature, Spain, Psychological novels, Family relationships, Passion, Barcelona, Catalan Literature
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- Jo confesso
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- A sweeping Spanish novel that takes the reader from the Inquisition to Franco. 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