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. It reveals how it was scrupulously prepared and how it affected so many people, and tells of the adventure of a writer attempting to make sense of such an action. An exciting novel that invites us to conduct a moral and universal reflection on the things that worry us all: death, individual freedom and collective compromise.