Confessions

Not only a profound meditation on evil but a dazzling work of imagination * Scotland on Sunday *Monumental * Guardian *Hitting the jackpot with Confessions, Cabré’s is a story of European history from the Inquisition to Auschwitz * Figaro *Its complexity turns Confessions into a piece of writing that has the power to influence our view of the world - a quality belonging to the best of literature’ * El Mundo *The narrative unfolds with such creativity and mastery … perfection from an author who has reached the very highest level of excellence in his craft. This book has earned its place alongside the classicsAbsolutely captivating

Jaume Cabre is a Catalan philologist, novelist and screenwriter who graduated in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona. He is a high-school teacher on leave of absence, a professor at the University of Lleida, and a member of the Philological Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. For many years he has combined literary writing with teaching. He has also worked in television and cinema, collaborating with Joaquim Maria Puyal as creator and scriptwriter of the first Catalan television series: La Granja (1989-1992), followed by numerous other shows. Confessions was sold for translation to more than 20 languages and has sold more than a million copies worldwide.