I am the one who killed Franco

Agustí Vilamat was born in 1916 in a modest house in Solsona (a village upnorth Catalonia) and he claims to have killed Franco. In spite of being a prudent, contemplative child, he loses an eye in an absurd accident. Soon, thanks to the children's magazines kept by a notary friend of the family, he discovers the taste for reading and the secrets of the language. Few years later, he moves to Barcelona to work as a proofreader, shortly before the war breaks out. A war that does not end in 1939, because Franco, yielding to the pressures of Hitler, declares war to the Allies and crosses the Pyrenees. And the first military action of the Francoist army in France is to bomb the field of Argelés, where Agustí stays detained. What will do then, the young man in love with dictionaries?

This book has received Sant Jordi Award, the most prestigious award an author can receive in Catalan language.

Joan Lluís Lluís is never predictable and he never gets stuck in his ways. His latest novel is a party for any reader. From the clean and seductive prose to the storyline, going through characters and scenes that we will never forget. Read it! (Josep Lluch, publisher)