La veritat no està escrita

The Romanesque spoils of the churches of the Pyrenees, a passionate love at the foot of Tibidabo or the mystery of an extraordinary art forger make up this novel set in a Barcelona that, at the end of the 19th century, became a European metropolis thanks to the fortunes accumulated through slavery by some of its most illustrious citizens. That is to say city financed with a part of that perverse money. The fascinating and at the same time tragic story of Catarineu's wonderful art collection, with more than four thousand pieces gathered with passion over the years, and its disappearance, is deeply linked to this silent city from which it comes, to the wounds of the Civil War and the economic tribulations of the Franco regime. And it shows that, even today, the upper class never loses completely. "How dare Lolita write something like this about her family? I answer: because I'm not talking about my family, but about my country," we read in the novel. With an extraordinary narrative force, great tenderness in the portrayal of the characters and enormous courage, Lolita Bosch reveals in La veritat no es escrita our most shameful past and stirs the consciousness of a Barcelona where even today the historical memory seems to us a impertinence