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Oriol Laclau i Masdéu, construction magnate and socially successful football chairman, dies of apparently natural causes while on a Nile cruise. His sister, Lady Roxana, confesses to her friend Diana Dial, former reporter and amateur detective, that she suspects Oriol was murdered. The journalist feels the case requires her services.

The book tells the story of Isabel, a Colombian woman who lost her husband and brother and witnessed the violent kidnapping of her son at the hands of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). She and her family have been the victims of an infamous persecution in the south-west of Colombia by the FARC.

On the sixth of August 2007 a man set off from Barcelona to go into the mountains and die alone. He had turned seventy-five that same day; he was called Lluís Maria Xirinacs and he had a long public history of fighting for civil liberties and a pacifist philosophy. Why did he do it? Was it suicide or something else? 'Six Nights in August' is the story of that desired, unique, mysterious death.

Skillfully, simply and rigorously, Lama Lobsang Tsultrim leads us towards ultimate happiness via the three stages of the journey we must follow: renouncing suffering, overcoming egoism by fostering limitless altruism and developing the wisdom that will allow us to perceive reality.