Abstract

A young author is lost in obscurity until he is saved by an award bequeathed by Alberto Valdez; the highly controversial Surrealist Spanish author who first inspired him to write.

Given Valdez’s unsolved disappearance his motives in giving Jude the award are a mystery. Jude soon learns that there is more to the award than he first realised. It requires him to complete Valdez’s final masterpiece. But why was he chosen? And can one person ever really know another- let alone complete their work?
As he tries to find the beautiful and corrupt people key to understanding Valdez, Jude’s journey takes him to Barcelona, and the sun-drenched souks of Morocco. But as he learns the dark secrets revealed by the book he also learns that getting what you most crave from life requires you to face up to who you really are.