the first novel by Joan Buades presented in Palma

Crui. The torchbearers (EDICIONS AÏLLADES, 2016), The volume number 7 Anacrèptica collection of narrative and first novel by Joan Buades, It is presented on Tuesday, 24 May at 20:00 hours in the Library of Babel (Palma) in a ceremony that will be attended by the author himself. The presentation anger in charge of the writer Miquel Àngel Llauger ".

It is a European vocation story part of an original approach: the protagonist, Albert Leuven, a prestigious Belgian property developer based in the Balearic Islands for more than 40 years, to celebrate the 96 years with unusual “farewell party life”, ve como, in the last moment, a fact totally hung up on the past returns like a boomerang to break the story of his life. The work is structured based on a successive meeting and often torrential memories, dialogues and three or four decisive encounters that make each of its eight chapters involve a lowering increasingly demons and the hidden truths of the central character. In the end, despite the profusion of details and anecdotes that fill the frame, interested the author, especially, recreate the drive and fascination with the evil that inhabits any of us and that can be activated in extreme social situations.