3.5
Even the Darkest Night
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INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems in this “sweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural” (Wall Street Journal).
The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop.
This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Catalonia—the murder of a wealthy local man and his wife—will turn Melchor’s life upside down yet again.
Even the Darkest Night is a thought-provoking, elegantly constructed thriller about justice, revenge, and, above all, the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world.
The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: Melchor, the son of a prostitute, went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a cop.
This new case, in Terra Alta, a remote region of rural Catalonia—the murder of a wealthy local man and his wife—will turn Melchor’s life upside down yet again.
Even the Darkest Night is a thought-provoking, elegantly constructed thriller about justice, revenge, and, above all, the struggles of a righteous man trying to find his place in a corrupt world.
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3.5
“My desire to cover find a good mystery each year found the mark with this one, but I was not expecting it. Cercas popped up on my list of Nobel prize dark horses I had access to at my local library and I went in with some high-faultin expectations.
So when the first parts of the book read like Javert in SVU: Barcelona, I was amused but not sure he belonged among the dark horses. But as the novel builds and Cercas favors both the form of the police procedural and the complexity of placing Hugo’s moral quandaries in a more modern/violent world, I just deeply enjoyed myself.
Here’s hoping he defies expectations to earn some literary flowers (and boosts the chances of US printings of the other books in his trilogy).”BelievableMemorableMorally ambiguousMultilayeredStrong relationshipsUnforgettable protagonistClever plottingNonlinear narrativeSatisfying conclusionSteady pacingSuspensefulTwistyEnchantedEvocative imageryExpansiveHistoricalMysteriousRusticDescriptiveEasy to readStraightforwardDeathExplicit sexual contentMurderSubstance abuseViolence
About Javier Cercas
JAVIER CERCAS was born in Spain in 1962. He is a novelist and columnist, and he has received numerous international awards. His books include Soldiers of Salamis (which has sold more than a million copies worldwide), The Anatomy of a Moment, The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light, and The Impostor. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Barcelona.
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
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