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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Terra alta</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cercas, Javier</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1962-</namePart>
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  <genre authority="">Detective and mystery fiction</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Barcelona</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Tusquets Editores</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2022</dateIssued>
    <edition>First edition</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">spa</languageTerm>
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    <extent>365 pages ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Un crimen terrible sacude la apacible comarca de la Terra Alta: los propietarios de su mayor empresa, Gráficas Adell, aparecen asesinados tras haber sido sometidos a atroces torturas. Se encarga del caso Melchor Marín, un joven policía y lector voraz llegado desde Barcelona cuatro años atrás, con un oscuro pasado a cuestas que le ha convertido en una leyenda del cuerpo y que cree haber enterrado bajo su vida feliz como marido de la bibliotecaria del pueblo y padre de una niña llamada Cosette, igual que la hija de Jean Valjean, el protagonista de su novela favorita: Los miserables. Partiendo de ese suceso, esta novela se convierte en una reflexión sobre el valor de la ley, la posibilidad de la justicia y la legitimidad de la venganza, pero sobre todo en la epopeya de un hombre en busca de su lugar en el mundo.</abstract>
  <abstract>A terrible crime shakes the peaceful region of Terra Alta: the owners of its largest company, Gráficas Adell, are found murdered after having been subjected to horrific torture. The case is assigned to Melchor Marín, a young police officer and voracious reader who arrived from Barcelona four years earlier. Burdened with a dark past that has turned him into a legend within the force, he believes he has buried it beneath his happy life as the husband of the town librarian and the father of a little girl named Cosette—just like Jean Valjean’s daughter in his favorite novel, Les Misérables.

From this brutal event, the novel unfolds as a meditation on the value of the law, the possibility of justice, and the legitimacy of vengeance—but above all, as the epic story of a man searching for his place in the world.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/ Javier Cercas.</note>
  <note>Premio Planeta, 2019.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Murder</topic>
    <topic>Investigation</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Police</topic>
    <geographic>Spain</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fathers and daughters</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">PQ6653.E62  T47 2019</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9788411070904</identifier>
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