L'atzar i les ombres

Novel of novels about the persistence of collective memory. A cluster of lives driven by passions, against the repression of desires and in favor of the dignity of the human being. Three novels about a teenager's learning in the darkest times that constitute the great historical frieze on the popular consciousness of the industrial districts on the outskirts of Barcelona. They are not filler sentences. Julià de Jòdar's trilogy, which began in 1997 with L'àngel de la segona mort (followed by El trànsit de les fades and El metall impur), collected five of the country's main prizes, causing a happy undertow in the literary scene Catalan and has remained an essential stop on any list of the best works of our century. This edition brings it together for the first time in one volume, exhaustively revised -in fact, rewritten- by the author.