When Darkness Falls

One orphanage graduate grows up and takes revenge on everyone who abandoned him. A sophisticated thief steals a painting he intends to rob. A book watches from the shelf as a future Nobel laureate loses his mind on the day of his long-awaited triumph. A writer composes a novel and threatens the publisher with suicide if the book is not published. A former soldier, completely losing his sanity, cannot forget the lost battle and the death of his comrades on the battlefield.... Jaume Cabré (b. 1947) is the leading star of Catalan literature; his books have been translated into dozens of languages, with print runs exceeding a million copies, and his epic novel "I Confess" has received numerous awards. "When Darkness Falls" is a dazzling kaleidoscope in which stories of heartlessness, stupidity, anger, greed, misunderstandings, miscommunication, terrifying and humorous human souls, people at the mercy of circumstances and passions intertwine. Here, everyone has blood on their hands, each 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 completely innocent victim can be found. When darkness falls, everyone will be guilty.