Barcelona, 1950s. Young Andria grows up between a father who wants to give him the education of a Renaissance man, to make him knowledgeable in many languages, and a mother who intends him for a career as a virtuoso violinist. Andria, intelligent, solitary, and obedient, tries to satisfy his parents' excessive and contradictory ambitions until he discovers the suspicious origin of the family wealth and other untold secrets. Fifty years later, Andria, shortly before losing his memory, tries to reconstruct the family history, while tragic episodes of European history are intertwined around an extraordinary 18th-century violin, from the Spanish Inquisition to Franco's dictatorship and Nazi Germany, culminating in Auschwitz, the ultimate evil.

Ambitious and captivating novel that deals with the big questions of life - power, pain, remorse, evil and redemption, revenge, love, guilt, and forgiveness - with beautiful language and an impressive plot.

"Confiteor" has been honored with many awards, including the Serra d'Or Critics' Award 2012, the M. Angels Anglada Award 2012, the La tormenta en un Vaso Award 2012, the Crexells Award 2012, and the Courrier International Award for the best foreign novel of 2013.

Translated into fifteen languages and achieved significant commercial success everywhere, selling over 1,000,000 copies.