A few days after publishing Consent (Empúries), Vanessa Springora (Paris, 1972) received a call from the police asking her to identify the body of her father, who had committed suicide. In the apartment where he lived, which had belonged to her grandparents, they found a pile of dirt and two photos of her paternal grandfather with Nazi symbols. From there, Springora, who had not spoken to her father for years, began an investigation to understand who her grandfather was and, as a result, a pathological liar and lacking in empathy. She shares it with readers in The name of the father, translated by Marta Marfany and published by Empúries.

We know Vanessa Springora on the impact of her first book, Consent (published in French in 2020 and in Catalan in 2021). The volume narrates her seduction by the writer Gabriel Matzneff when she was a teenager. She was in love, her mother consented to the relationship (hence the title), and he was a known pedophilia propagandist. In the absence of her father, living with her estranged mother, Springora fell prey to a collector of young girls—and young boys—who didn't hesitate to turn many of her literary works into apologetics for pedophilia.