Esperança Camps

La draga

INFORMATION

The back cover:

Life on the island, an impoverished and degraded place, is sad and hopeless. It always rains. Everyone runs away and never comes back. Therefore, when Ignasi loses his job on the peninsula and realizes that, separated from his wife and without contact with his daughter, he finds himself absolutely alone, he decides to return to his village, in the family house he inherited some time ago. To let the years go by. Or to find himself, through the memories of his parents and childhood.

When the dredging works of the village port, the only one on the island and controlled with iron hand by Ignasi's father for many years, appears a corpse, no one knows what may have happened. Suspicions. Silence. The rain, which rots everything. And the hangover. Between memories, conversations with an old acquaintance of his father and the strange relationship he establishes with the village doctor, Ignasi discovers the truth. The dredge 'is a novel to savour slowly as you delve into the inner life of the characters.