![]() He falls into the water, and Alba, who sees the scene, jumps in to save him. Before the invasion, Dídac is attacked by some neb from the town because he is black. ![]() ![]() They become the only survivors on Earth after extraterrestrials destroy almost all humanity. In this novel de Pedrolo tells the story of Alba and Dídac, 14 and 9 years old respectively, who live in a Catalan town called Benaura. It was brought to television by a very successful TV series produced and displayed by TV3, and in 2015 it was adapted for the big screen with the film Segon origen. The novel was published in English in 2017 by Wesleyan University Press. The work is divided into 6 chapters, the first 5 of them having a similar extension and being called Quaderns (Catalan word for Notebooks) and the last of them being short and entitled «És l'Alba la mare de la humanitat actual?» ( Is Alba the mother of current humanity?). Typescript of the Second Origin ( Catalan: Mecanoscrit del segon origen) is a science fiction novel written by Manuel de Pedrolo in 1974, that had a great success and that has become one of the best-selling books of Catalan literature. ![]()
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