When Darkness Falls

One orphanage graduate grows up and seeks revenge on everyone who abandoned him. A cunning thief steals a painting that he had previously stolen. A book watches from the shelf as a future Nobel laureate goes mad on the day of his long-awaited triumph. A writer composes a novel and threatens to commit suicide if the book is not published. A former soldier, who has completely lost his mind, cannot forget the lost battle and the death of his comrades on the battlefield.... Jaume Cabré (born 1947) is the leading star of Catalan literature; his books have been translated into dozens of languages, their print runs exceed a million copies, and his epic novel "I Confess" has won numerous awards. "When Darkness Falls" is a dazzling kaleidoscope in which stories of heartlessness, stupidity, anger, greed, misunderstandings, misinterpretations, terrible and funny human souls, and people under the sway of circumstances and passions are mixed and intertwined. Here, everyone has blood on their hands; everyone kills — accidentally or intentionally, by the call of the soul, by duty, or supposedly out of necessity, in reality or in dreams — and hardly a single absolutely innocent victim can be found. When darkness falls, everyone will be guilty. For the first time in Russian!