A mysterious traveller arrives in Turin for an atypical congress that disturbs the peace of the city while awakening a host of demons. From this enigmatic, hypnotic premise emerges a journey into light and darkness, desire and secrecy. An exquisite odyssey of characters and memorable scenes. Mixing legend, reality and religion, Josep M. Argemí has created a world of demons, exorcisms and another world existing parallel to our own. And he does this in a lyrical style that keeps the reader guessing until the very end.
JOSEP M. ARGEMÍ (Barcelona, 1965) is a writer and qualified lawyer who has published numerous exceptional novels and has been shortlisted for two of the most important prizes in Catalonia. He understands imagination not so much as a genre but as the prism that allows us to understand literature as a machine for producing happiness.
TIAGO MILLER is a writer and translator living and working in Lleida, Catalonia. In addition to his translations of Catalan literature, he contributes articles on Catalan culture and language to various publications.