Institut Ramon LLull

Eight-year-old Cora gets lost during a cycling trip while on a family holiday in the south of France. Caught in a sudden storm, she takes shelter in a cave, where she finds a series of wall paintings that feel eerily familiar, stirring memories buried deep within her. This moment sparks an obsessive search for her origins. What unfolds is a labyrinthine tale —a thriller woven with poetic insight and reflection— in which Cora must piece together an intimate puzzle, fitting fragments of the past and present together until the truth about her identity is finally revealed.

Elisenda Solsona draws us deep into a mystery framed by the social crisis of infertility and the maternal relationships that arise from it. Mammalia is a novel about the devastating consequences of the past and how family secrets can curdle into curses.