On the impure Earth

A Mallorcan writer living in Barcelona is commissioned to write the biography of Dora Bonnín, a terrifying and controversial theater actress who has just died leaving behind a series of intimate diaries. Bit by bit, the protagonist will discover that these diaries hide a very dark secret that could dismantle the empire of the Verderas, a very powerful family from Mallorca, known as Falangists, who got rich by making shoes. Dora was the wife of Higini, the heir of the Verderas, and by chance their son, Leo, is the writer's great childhood friend. With this unexpected reunion, his life will take a turn that will force him to face his past, so close to the Verderas, in a journey that will lead him to face the limits of how far they are willing to go to preserve what they have.
Melcior Comes narrates a psychological adventure about the way we understand the world and ourselves, a return to the origins to discover a painful and terrible family mystery, a frantic chronicle of the horror years of the Transition. Between Balzac, Philip Roth and Llorenç Villalonga, the author builds an often delirious, magnetic tale, a symphonic thriller that drags us with its freedom from the very first pages, a novel full of voices and black humor. A real literary feast.