Institut Ramon LLull

Orphaned in the Afghan War and adopted by a Russian Army official, Farishta is a smart, peripatetic young woman who gets offered an impossible dream of a job: managing a tiny community of reclusive billionaires who live in complete isolation in French Polynesia. There in the Clarke Islands, Farishta finds love, paradise landscapes and a passion for 90’s alternative rock. But very soon she discovers that there is much more to the secretive community than what she has been told.

In this fast-paced thriller, and through a barrage of dizzying plot twists, Marc Pastor pulls off his biggest literary feat so far. A virtuous work of genre crossing, Farishta takes readers to unexpected landscapes of Wellsian adventure and slick science fiction. Are the Clarke Islands a lab for clone research? Or maybe a haven for time travellers? Or part of the solution to the deadliest plague that humankind has yet to face? And, is it too late for Farishta to escape?