At the concentration camp of Auschwitz, the conditions are infrahuman and abuses, punishments and deaths are common occurences among prisoners such as Daniel, a jewish lute maker from Crakow, who manages to survive the living hell working as a carpenter. Until one day the camp commander, a classical music lover, discovers the prisoner's skills and decides to put him to the test: he will have to make a violin that sounds to perfection. Daniel starts work straight away without the slightest idea of what his punishment will be if he doesn't succeed.

First written in 1994 in Catalan published again with success in 2008, A Violion in Auschwitz is a short masterpiece, a touching story that, like the international best-seller book, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, by John Boyne, talks about dignity and one person's resistance in the face of the most terrible adversity.

More than 100.000 copies sold in Catalan language!

Published by Columna (in Catalan), 1994, 127 pages.