The Clarks

Paris. Summer of 1913. Roger Codina, a passionate young man and a journalist at heart, becomes interested in the life of Daniel Clark, a fellow Minorcan who has just been found dead in suspicious circumstances in his room in the Ritz Hotel. Fascinated, Codina is drawn in to the story of this character who not only was in contact with the great Impressionist painters of the time but also played a key role in the 1868 Revolution, the First Republic and the economic development of the island of Minorca.

Els Clark concludes the powerful family saga of Greek traders that began in Els Nikolaidis (Proa, 2006), in this gripping life story of an ambitious, cultured man who is passionate in love and cold in business.

The author sketches out a re ned portrait, full of nuances, of the industrial, political and nancial of the 19th century, in the full throes of a period of capitalism.