Even the Darkest Night

Resumen del libro

"A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year. A contemporary police procedural with a literary edge. I was rooting for the flawed, but deeply compassionate Melchor Marin from the first page to the last.

Highly recommended" M W Craven

A Terra Alta Investigation. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta

When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluna nothing quite adds up. The young cop from the big city, hero of a foiled terrorist attack, has been sent to Terra Alta till things quieten down.

Observant, streetwise and circumspect, Melchor is an also an outsider.

The son of a Barcelona prostitute who never knew his father, Melchor rapidly fell into trouble and was jailed at 19, convicted of driving for a Colombian drug cartel. While he was behind bars, he read Hugo's Les Miserables, and then his mother was murdered. Admiring of both Jean Valjean and Javert - but mostly the relentless Javert - he decided to become a policeman.

Now he is out for revenge, but he can wait, and meanwhile he has discovered happiness with his wife, the local librarian, and their daughter, who is, of course, called Cossette.

Slowly at first, and then more rapidly once ordered to abandon the case, he tracks the clues that will reveal the larger truth behind what appears at first to be a cold-blooded, professional killing.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Javier Cercas x{0026}lt;/B (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Gerona, Honorary Fellow de la Universidad de Oxford y profesor honorario de la Universidad Diego Portales, en Chile. Traducida a más de treinta lenguas, su obra consta de las siguientes novelas: x{0026}lt;I El móvilx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El inquilinox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El vientre de la ballenax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Soldados de Salaminax{0026}lt;/I (The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Premio Grinzane-Cavour, Premio de la Crítica de Chile, Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, Premi Llibreter, Premio Salambó, entre otros), x{0026}lt;I La velocidad de la luzx{0026}lt;/I (Athens Prize for Literatura, Premio Arzobisto Juan de San Clemente, Premio Fernando Lara, ex aequo), x{0026}lt;I Anatomía de un instantex{0026}lt;/I (Premio Nacional de Narrativa, Premio Internacional Terenci Moix, Premio Mondello Città di Palermo, Prix Jean Moner, Premio Radovan Galonja), x{0026}lt;I Las leyes de la frontera x{0026}lt;/I (Prix Méditérranée Étranger, Premio Correntes d'Escritas, Premio Mandarache), x{0026}lt;I El impostor x{0026}lt;/I (Prix du Libre Europeén, Premio Internazionale Isola D'Elba, Premio Internazionale Ceppo di Pistoia, Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Premio Taofen a la mejor novela extranjera publicada en China), x{0026}lt;I El monarca de las sombras x{0026}lt;/I (Prix Malraux), x{0026}lt;I Terra Altax{0026}lt;/I (Premio Planeta y Dagger Prize), x{0026}lt;I Independenciax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El castillo de Barbazul x{0026}lt;/I (Premio Internazionale NordSud). También ha publicado libros misceláneos -x{0026}lt;I Una buena temporadax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Relatos realesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La verdad de Agamenónx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Formas de ocultarsex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I No callarx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I La aventura de escribirx{0026}lt;/I - y ensayos: x{0026}lt;I La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El punto ciegox{0026}lt;/I . Ha recibido además diversos premios de ensayo y de periodismo, como el Francesco de Sanctis, en Italia, o el Joaquín Romero Murube y el Francisco Cerecedo, en España, así como diversos reconocimientos a toda su carrera, entre ellos el Premio EÑE, en España, el Prix Ulysse o el Prix Dialogo, en Francia, o el Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino, el Premio Friuladria, el Premio Internazionale Città di Vigevano o el Premio Sicilia, todos ellos en Italia, , así como el International Literary Flame Award en Montenegro.x{0026}lt;/P