by Jaume Cabré
The twins
DURING THE THIRD REICH AND WORLD WAR II
Rudolph Höss
SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel),
commander of Auschwitz
Hedwig Höss
Rudolph Höss’s wife
Aribert Voigt
SS-Sturmbannführer (commander), doctor
Konrad Budden
SS-Obersturmführer (lieutenant), doctor
Brother Robert
Novitiate at the abbey of Saint Benedict of Achel
Bruno Lübke
SS soldier
Mathäus
Rottenführer (section leader)
Uncle Haïm Epstein
Rachel Epstein’s uncle
Gavriloff
Deportee
Heinrich Himmler
Reichsführer
Elisaveta Meireva
Unit 615428
Hansch
Gefreiter (corporal)
Barabbas
Oberscharführer (sergeant)
Matthias Alpaerts, from Antwerp
Berta Alpaerts
Matthias Alpaerts’s wife
Netje de Boeck
Matthias Alpaerts’s mother-in-law with a chest cold
Amelia, Trude and Julia Alpaerts
Matthias Alpaerts’s daughters
Franz Grübbe, from Tübingen
SS-Obersturmführer (lieutenant) of the SS Division Reich
Lothar Grübbe
Franz Grübbe’s father
Anna Grübbe
Lothar Grübbe’s wife
Herta Landau, of Bebenhausen
Konrad Budden and Franz Grübbe’s cousin
Vlado Vladić
Serbian partisan
Danilo Janicek
Partisan
Timotheus Schaaf
Hauptsturmführer (captain) of the SS Division Reich
The twins
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jaume Cabré is one of the most internationally celebrated contemporary Catalan writers. He is the author of a number of bestselling novels, with over a million copies sold throughout Europe, and has been awarded most of the Catalan literary awards, including the Premi d’Honor de les Lletres Catalanes. Confessions has been called a masterpiece of world literature by international reviewers, and awarded the Premio de la Crítica, Premi de la Crítica Serra d’Or, Premi de Narrativa Maria Àngels Anglada, Premi Joan Crexells de l’Ateneu Barcelonès, Premio La Tormenta en un Vaso (all 2012). Confessions has also been shortlisted for both the Prix Femina and the Prix Medicis in France (2013).
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Mara Faye Lethem has translated novels by David Trueba, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Javier Calvo, Patricio Pron, Marc Pastor and Pablo De Santis, among others. Her translations have appeared in The Best American Non-Required Reading 2010, Granta, The Paris Review and McSweeney’s.
Copyright
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First published in the United Kingdom by Arcadia Books 2014
Originally published by Raval Edicions SLU, Proa, as Jo Confesso 2011
Copyright © Jaume Cabré 2011
English language translation copyright © Mara Faye Lethem 2014
Jaume Cabré asserted his moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
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This Ebook edition published in 2014
ISBN 978–1–909807–76–1
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