La clave Gaudí (con Andreu Carranza) / The Gaudi Key
Novel , 2007
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What enigma does Antoni Gaudí’s work hold? Did this deeply religious architect belong to a secret ancient order? Who might have benefitted from his death?
Barcelona, 1926: One June afternoon, Antoni Gaudí was killed by a tram. He was accompanied by an eleven-year-old boy.
Eighty years later, Juan Givell meets upwith his granddaughter Maria to tell her a story he has kept to himself decades: “I was with Gaudí the day he died; I was eleven years old.” Now seriously ill and on the verge of losing his memory, he gives her a strange key that will lead her to Antoni Gaudí’s best- kept secret.
Maria has just come back from the United States, where she works as
an art historian at a prestigious university. With the help of her boyfriend Miguel, a reputed mathematician, and Taimatsu, a Japanese friend specialised in Catalan Art Nouveau, Maria begins a desperate search, in which she has
to unravel the strange clues and riddles hidden in the work of the brilliant architect.
Their lives will be endangered too: a vicious secret brotherhood is on their trail and, after murdering Juan Givell, will try at all costs to prevent the secret from being revealed.
“A chilling novel in which Gaudí’s monuments become a fascinating stage where mystery, esotericism, art, action, and social upheaval intertwine.” Diari de Tarragona