Sobre la terra impura

A Majorcan writer living in Barcelona is commissioned to write the biography of Dora Bonnín, a frightening and controversial theater actress who has just died leaving behind a series of intimate diaries. Little by little, the protagonist will discover that these diaries hide a very dark secret that could disassemble the empire of the Verdera, a very powerful family of Mallorca, of old falangistas, who became rich in shoes. Dora was the wife of n'Higini, the heir to the Verdera, and coincidentally the son of both, Leo, was our writer's great childhood friend. With this unexpected encounter, his life will take a turn that will force him to face his past, so closely linked to that of the Verdera, in a journey that will take him to taste the limits of how far they are ready to go to preserve what they have. Melcior Comes tells a psychological adventure about the way we understand the world and ourselves, a return to our origins to discover a painful and terrible family mystery, a frantic chronicle of the years of terror of the Transition. Between Balzac, Philip Roth and Llorenç Villalonga, the author creates an often delusional, magnetic tale, a symphonic thriller that drags us from its first pages, a novel full of voices and black humor. A true literary feast.