Angèlica i Rafel

Publication language: Catalan
Year: 2019
Pages: 320
Cover: Hardcover
Format: 14 x 21 cm
ISBN City Council: 978-84-9156-197-2
Publishing ISBN: 978-84-17188-87-0

Author/s: Miquel de Palol
Co-edition with: Comanegra
Collection: Barcelona Literary

Angèlica is a secret agent capable of surviving in the starkest, most chaotic Barcelona imaginable. She spends her time putting the other agents assigned to highflying missions to the test. Suddenly she will find herself at a dangerous crossroads of situations consisting of a mysterious publishing merger, an outbreak of spontaneous combustions and a man obsessed by the superman theory who claims to be the author of a book dating from 1818 and which just now, for some unaccountable reason, has become a best seller. When Angèlica meets Rafel, unknowingly, they both become embroiled in a plot that overwhelms them, and have to choose which side they are on. Humour, espionage and philosophy come together in a novel about truth and lies, about melancholy and negativity, about inventions to justify evil and the futility of the self. In short, a novel about nothingness.

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