Cervantes Institute in London is hosting the launch of the English translation of Terra Alta by acclaimed writer Javier Cercas. The book entitled Fortress of Evil: A Terra Alta Investigation has been translated by Anne McLean.
The event will feature author Javier Cercas in conversation with renowned hispanist Gareth Wood of University College London.
Fortress of Evil: A Terra Alta Investigation
A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared.
Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found
peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta.
But their idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her
father has been concealing the truth of her mother's death- that she was killed in a hitand-
run "accident" intended to scare Melchor off a case.
Angry and betrayed, Cosette disappears to Mallorca with her friend Elisa. And that's the
last Melchor hears of her. His texts and calls go unanswered, and when she returns alone,
Elisa can only say C osette needed "space to think".
Now the former policeman has no choice but to travel to Port de Pollença, where his
daughter was last seen alive, and enter the dark, looking-glass world of Swedish-
American billionaire Rafael Mattson.
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
PRAISE FOR EVEN THE DARKEST NIGHT - WINNER OF THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME
FICTION IN TRANSLATION
"A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year" M W Craven
"A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson,
Tablet
"Promises to be an excellent series" Guardian.
About the author, Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose
books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won
six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive,
The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into
more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.
About Gareth Wood
He studied Modern Languages (Spanish & Portuguese) at St Peter's College, Oxford, where he also gained a Master of Studies in European Languages (Spanish). He also completed his D.Phil. there in 2007. From 2005 until 2008 he was the Queen Sofia Research Fellow in Spanish at Exeter College, Oxford. He joined UCL in 2008.
