David Cirici

A 20-year-old girl starts a relationship with a former teacher of hers, who is much older than she is.

At twenty years old, Ístina—who is named after the Russian word used for absolute truth, that which lies beyond moral or personal considerations—attempts to find her place in the world through highly unusual transgressions: learning the Russian language, reading the classics, or seducing a man—a former teacher of hers—forty years her senior, in a relationship that both of them know has no future, but is pure present. Ístina explains it with no filters. Sometimes out of anguish and despair. Sometimes out of tenderness and love. But always from a loneliness that she cannot seem to shake off.

With Ístina, David Cirici has written an intense novella, full of literature and sensuality, which speaks openly about an unusual and counter-current relationship and, with a prose full of nuances and sinuosities, transcends the events of the plot to offer a luminous and deeply moving literary text.

Silvia, an executive from Barcelona's upscale upper district, discovers that her son Martí has skipped his drug addiction therapy and disappeared without a trace. She only receives a text message on her phone: "Don't look for me." She then decides to search for him on her own and gets in touch with Moni, an eccentric girl who deals cocaine to make her dream come true: to live in the South Seas. Silvia distrusts her, but only with her will she be able to descend into the underworld of drugs and face the Tiger...

Sara Medina is a different kind of writer. She is an experiment. A creative experience. She is a tandem formed by a journalist and screenwriter of long-standing prestige, who has worked on some twenty successful television series and TV movies, and a novelist who, among many other awards, has received the Prudenci Bertrana and the Sant Jordi. Sara Medina are Carmen Fernández Villalba and David Cirici.

The deeply moving passion between a teacher and a blind student, the son of Picasso's gardener.

André falls in love with Céline, his history teacher. Twenty years his senior, she is the only person capable of understanding the sensitivity of André, who is blind. In parallel, André strikes up a friendship with Pablo Picasso, as the boy's father works as the gardener of the castle where the painter lives. Intrigued by how a blind person can perceive reality and art, Picasso, step by step, also becomes his confidant.

From the rattle of a bicycle chain to the scent of desire, this story invites us to plunge into the world of the senses and to experience this surprising love story from a unique perspective. And a life enthusiast like Pablo Picasso, now an old man, will discover—just like the readers—that the world can be seen in a completely different way.

Sant Jordi Prize 2016

A deeply moving story about the fragility of life and the bond between parents and children.

Ernest, a successful advertiser and enthusiast of life's pleasures, is sailing his yacht between the islands of Patmos and Icaria in the company of his seven-year-old son, Marc, his partner, Sophie, and little Max, Sophie’s son. The sea is rough. As the sun begins to set, the boat collides with the remains of a shipwreck and Marc falls into the water. This is how the story begins.

The reader will follow the father's desperate search, his guilt, and the crisis that pushes him to the brink of madness. In parallel, they will follow the adventure of his son, who on the very night of the accident is rescued by a dinghy filled with families from Syria and Afghanistan trying to reach the shores of Samos. Unbeknownst to anyone, little Marc will experience the uncertain journey of the refugees.

El setè àngel (The Seventh Angel) is a poignant story about the fragility of life, the blows of fate, and the bond between parents and children.

A novel based on the disappearance, during the Nazi era, of a mural by Joan Miró that rivaled Guernica.

The attempt to kidnap Picasso's Guernica during the 1937 Paris International Exposition—commissioned by the Nazis—is linked to the disappearance of the painting The Reaper (El segador), the large mural that Joan Miró painted on panels at the same exhibition as an artistic response to Picasso's masterpiece. Miró's mythical Reaper vanished forever, and today all that remains of it is a magnificent black-and-white photograph.

David Cirici's novel combines the Nazi mission against "degenerate art," the investigation into the disappearance of Miró's legendary mural, a story of love and revenge in France just before World War II, the world of art forgers, and, finally, the artistic rivalry between two unforgettable figures: Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.

Prudenci Bertrana Novel Award

Ricard Moja, the president of a prestigious cultural institution's foundation, embezzles a significant amount of money for his personal use. Recommended by him, the artist Res Benito is preparing a large mural about the orgasm—which, according to him, is the origin of song—for the Liceu opera house. Three hairdressers provide him with the hair he will need for his artwork. Meanwhile, Rubén Montesinos, who works with homeless people, is tasked with searching for Lídia Moja, Ricard’s sister, who disappeared in India more than thirty years ago. Thus begins a story you won't be able to stop reading, built like a set of interlocking gears that move the world, turn it upside down, and make the poor rich and the rich a little less wealthy. A novel with no heroes or villains, blending comedy and drama, where everyone feels driven to change and, if possible, to improve.

Award 23 d'Abril 2003

Els errors (The Mistakes) is a love story set in Roses and Barcelona during the saddest years of the Franco regime and the most cheerful years of early tourism. A novel as murky as it is brilliant. A tale about indecision in the matters of life and about complicity with a system that weaves networks of cowardice.

A tale about a kind of mistake that, in reality, we can never know for certain whether it is one or not, because in life there is no room for rehearsal and repetition. Be that as it may, Joan Hernando’s mistakes are of omission, of indecision. Maria Alomar manages to convince him that it is much better to be a lover than a husband. Joan feels humiliated by Alfonso Palau, for whom he works, but he is incapable of rebelling. By the time he realizes it, the character is already too late. But not entirely: in his old age, he is still capable of trying again.

Ramon Llull Prize Finalist 2000

The protagonist of this novel has just separated and cannot stand living alone. Suddenly, he discovers he has the strange ability to see other people's lives. He sees what is happening in his neighbors' homes as if there were no walls.

A love novel like few others, dense and unforgettable.

The surgeon Gabriel de Montcada faces the most delicate operation of his life: he must save the Baron of Torrella, who is gravely injured. He will only succeed thanks to the brain of Gaireta Pou, a leper who, from that moment on, will remain inextricably linked to the baron.

The Baron and the Leper is a love story, but it is not a tale of impossible love or a love triangle. With an unusual beginning, the protagonist is forced to live intensely through every possible and impossible form of love.

Romantic, funny, magical, brutal, tender, and decisively human, this story will stay with you until its perfect ending.

Are you ready for artificial intelligence to decide for you? Even who you should fall in love with?

Nora and the rest of the young people live in a world of avatars where reality blends with the virtual world. Couples are formed through matches made by an AI program that controls everything. But these matches often don't work, and the youth suspect that the entire system is a sham. Nora meets a group of dissidents who discover that the personal data they provide to Cyranus shapes the avatars of a popular video game called Combat & Love.

Imagine you discover that you can fly. But you can't quite believe it. And you also discover that adults think flying is wrong. They think flying is bad. And you too end up thinking you would like to be like most people, and not fly. But you can't help it, and you fly in secret. Until you are discovered... That is what happens to Max.

The best repentance is to change

This is the story of Daniel, a "normal" teenager without clear ideas, who gets mixed up with some dangerous friends: Andreu and Soren, the latter a far-right sympathizer. One night, they decide to carry out what was supposed to be a mere prank, but things go wrong: they go to set fire to the shelter for unaccompanied minors (MENA), but Andreu dies in the fire, while Soren is gravely injured and saved by Munir, a local young man of Moroccan origin.

Daniel manages to escape and goes unpunished, but his guilt leads him to help Munir's family and become friends with his sister, Amina, whom he eventually falls in love with, forcing him to question many of his beliefs. When Amina discovers that Daniel was one of the instigators of the fire, everything seems to fall apart, and Daniel will have to find a way to redeem himself.

Molsa is a happy dog. He lives with Menta at Janinka and her family's home. The horror of war is now behind them. Molsa thought he wouldn't have any more adventures, but he was very wrong. And it all started when he was chasing a gray and orange ball and tried to be brave...

A dystopian novel where friendship, love, and the pursuit of freedom are stronger than any enemy.

Contrary to what they believed, Daia and Inge, along with the hundred girls accompanying them, are not the only survivors of the great pandemic. The mirage of the Five Communities has fallen, and the world is divided into different factions. Everyone has a single goal: to head north to the free cities of the forbidden zone. However, Daia and Inge have suffered the ravages of war and are no longer the same—and neither is Viggo...

Molsa is a dog who, without understanding the reason behind wars, has seen his home and the family he lived with disappear when a bomb falls and destroys everything. Among the ruins, he searches in vain for his two children, Janinka and Mirek. But, although he flees to save his life and goes through misfortunes and owners of the most diverse kinds (a wild animal circus, a concentration camp...), the sense of loss does not disappear, and he keeps searching for his children in every scent... What if, perhaps, they survived the bombing?

When savages take over the road, the only thing left is to fight to survive.

Daia and her twin sister, Inge, are boarders at an isolated school in the middle of the mountains along with a hundred other girls, without any contact with adults. The school, fully automated and with teachers who are not real but holograms, has kept the girls hidden for years to ensure they are the first generation of humans to survive the effects of a great pandemic.

Unexpectedly, a natural disaster disables the school and forces the girls to leave and seek refuge by following an emergency message broadcast by the machines. It is time to face the real world—the world after the pandemic—where violence is a way of life and nothing is what it seems.

BET and BUP ask and answer. Guess the answers! Whether you get them right or not, you will have fun. An ideal book to help your children think, accompanied by delightful illustrations.

BET and BUP ask and answer. Guess the answers! Whether you get them right or not, you will have fun. An ideal book to help your children think, accompanied by delightful illustrations.

La fàbrica de mentides (The Factory of Lies) is a novel written by David Cirici and published by Editorial Empúries in 1996. The story follows a group of teenagers in an inhospitable city who fight to improve their lives in an environment of simulations and slave labor. Through a dream machine, they discover a world of virtual fantasies, where memory and friendship are their greatest weapons against lethargy and apathy. The novel explores themes of loneliness, evasion, and the numbing of modern life from the perspective of adolescence, during a time of discoveries and rebellion.

One day you meet Miquel, who lives alone with a Filipino maid. He is much heavier and much richer than any of your friends. You find him likeable and introduce him to your group of friends. But one day you are kidnapped because they mistake you for him. They demand a ransom for you that your parents cannot pay under any circumstances. One of the kidnappers suggests that if they cut off your ear, they will get the ransom.

How will you be able to escape this danger? If you are smart enough and clever enough, you will have an opportunity you cannot afford to miss. But if you make a mistake and choose poorly, your situation will be desperate.

Apel·les Mestres Prize, 1985

Book of Volics, Laquidambres, and Other Species.

Why have they been confined to isolated schools?

The only world they know is the school and its surroundings. The only possible contact with the outside world is the telephone. Everything is programmed: classes, meals, showers, games, reading. The teachers are holograms.

But a series of chance events leads several boys to discover and understand the mechanisms by which the school operates and, at the same time, to make contact with a group of girls from a not-so-distant school. Then, the routine breaks and everything becomes complicated. Little by little, these boys and girls—all of them teenagers—experience the birth of friendship and, as they feel themselves growing up, the birth of love. Later, they discover a hostile and brutal world: that of adults.

Why have they been confined to isolated schools? Why did their parents accept it? From what danger did they want to save them?

Immerse yourself in the world of Robòtia, a fascinating cybernetic science fiction novel written by David Cirici. Published in 1996 by Editorial Empúries as part of the L'Odissea collection, this 144-page paperback edition will transport you to a future where robotics and cybernetics intertwine with Catalan storytelling. Discover a captivating story that has enthralled young readers and adults alike.