Andreu Carranza
Imprenta Babel / Babel Press
Novel , 2009
Ed. Tema de Hoy
Barcelona 2009. Pol AlbiĆ³n, a successful and acclaimed author, has received a mysterious letter from his recently deceased uncle. He has to find the old Babel printing press that used to be in their attic, and that will help him to find out more about his earliest childhood.
As a seven years-old traumatized boy with a photographic memory, Pol was taken home by his uncle and aunt after the death of his parents.
What he did not understand of the civil war as a child, it slowly becomes clear when he finds out how important the old press was under the dictatorship and Franco's censorship. He also discovers a dark past of his uncle and the most important and shocking of everything: who his parents were ...