Rafael Chirbes

On the Edge

Buch

On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain-a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and corruption. Stuck in this town is Esteban-his small factory bankrupt, his investments stolen by a friend, and his unloved father, a mute invalid, entirely his personal burden. Much of the novel unfolds in Esteban's raw and tormented monologues. But other voices resound from the wreckage-soloists stepping forth from the choir-and their words, sharp as knives, crowd their terse, hypnotic monologues of ruin, prostitution, and loss.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Jull Costa, Margaret (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-2284-6
EAN: 9780811222846
Produktnummer: 19231021
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 464 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.8 cm 408 g
Gewicht: 408

Über den Autor

Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015) wrote ten novels and received the National Prize for Literature and the Critics Prize for On the Edge. ABC named him the best writer of the twenty-first century in Spain.