City of Shadows -1954: Chapter 20 Summary

Nuria Monfort lived in a very simple and modest apartment, and is obviously undergoing financial difficulties. She explained that her husband, Miquel was in prison and that she was living off translations. Nuria answers Daniel's questions about Julian Carax, explaining that she had met him in Paris while she was working with his publisher. She had stayed in Julian's apartment for a week in 1933 when she was in Paris for business. Nuria claimed that their relationship was purely business and that she really didn't know him well. Julian had told her that Fortuny was not his real father; his mother had had a previous affair. The hatter had beaten his mother and treated Julian badly. Julian had run away to Paris, to escape being sent to the army by his mother's husband.

When asked whether...