Josep Maria Quintana

Els Clark

INFORMATION

Paris, during the summer of 1913. Roger Codina, a young man in love and a journalist's soul, will be interested in the life of Daniel Clark, a Menorcan like him, who has just been found dead in strange circumstances in his room at the Ritz Hotel. Codina will be fascinated and trapped in 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 Menorca. The Clark closes the family saga of Greek merchants that began with the Nikolaidis (Proa, 2006), and which now ends the agitated life trajectory of this ambitious man, cultured, passionate about love and cold in business. The author draws, in a precious portrait full of nuances, the industrial, political and financial evolution of a century, the nineteenth, fully devoted to capitalism, which in Menorca closed with the banking crash of 1911.