Abans més que encara
Novel , 2025
Navona
Pages: 800
“Every great saga begins with a founding crime.”
At the end of the 1970s, Josep Buron and Gil Salabreda are two ambitious economics students, entrepreneurial and full of ideas. The first comes from a wealthy family; the second, from humble origins. Each, with uneven initial fortunes, will set up a company that, over the course of four decades, will grow into an empire to be enjoyed –or fought over– by their children. But an irreparable fault between Josep Buron and Gil Salabreda, an original sin, will ignite a chain of betrayals, jealousy, abuse, revenge, murder, and incest that will spread like a biblical plague among their descendants.
Brimming with mythological references and sly nods to the reader, Abans més que encara is a high-voltage literary novel, a ruthless critique of capitalist society told through a family saga worthy of Succession.
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