On the Edge
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher RANDOM HOUSE UK
- ISBN13 9780099593171
- ISBN10 0099593173
- Type BOOK
- Pages 432
- Published 2017
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
English LiteratureOn the Edge
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
The acclaimed novel of Spain's economic crisis - a timely masterpiece. Under a weak winter sun in small-town Spain, a man discovers a rotting corpse in a marsh. It's a despairing town filled with half-finished housing developments and unemployment, a place defeated by the burst of the economic bubble. Stuck in the same town is Esteban, his small factory bankrupt, his investments gone, the sole carer to his mute, invalid father. As Esteban's disappointment and fury lead him to form a dramatic plan to reverse financial ruin, other voices float up from the wreckage. Stories of loss twist together to form a kaleidoscopic image of Spain's crisis. And the corpse in the marsh is just one. Chirbes's rhythmic, torrential style creates a Spanish masterpiece for our age.