Catalan author Jaume Cabré publishes a new novel after 'Les veus del Pamano'

Barcelona (ACN).- ‘Jo confesso’ (I confess) is the new novel by Catalan author Jaume Cabré (Barcelona, 1947). Cabré is the author of ‘Les veus del Pamano’, which has not been published in English yet (‘Die Stimmen des Flusses’ in German or ‘Les Voix du Pamano’, in French). ‘Les veus del Pamano’ sold more than 100,000 copies in Catalan, 450,000 in German and has sold well in a further eleven languages. This September, the writer returns with a novel about love, lack of affection, guilt and evil. The novel is about to be available on bookshops at the beginning of September. After the success of ‘Les veus del Pamano’, Cabré’s latest novel will also be translated into the main European languages.

With ‘Jo confesso’ the reader will travel from the Eixample, in the centre of Barcelona, to the Congo, and from the 20^th century back to the 18^th. It is the long confession of Adrià Ardèvol, the highly-gifted son of a bourgeois but loveless family from Barcelona. Adrià has a distant relationship with his father, a mysterious antique dealer, and with his mother, who does not understand him.

Jaume Cabré is one of the most prestigious and translated writers of contemporary Catalan literature. He made a huge impact on the literary scene with ‘Les veus del Pamano’ (2004), which followed ‘Senyoria’ (Honour) (1991), ‘L’ombra de l’eunuc’ (The Eunuch’s Shadow) (1996) or the compilation of short stories ‘Winter Journey’ (2000).