Cremation - Softcover

Chirbes, Rafael

 
9780811224307: Cremation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0811224309 ISBN 13: 9780811224307
Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco years have left everything up for grabs. Cremation opens with the death of Matías, a paterfamilias who had rejected all of these changes and whose passing sets off a chain reaction, uncovering a past that had been buried for years, and leading those closest to him to question the paths they've chosen.
      In a rich mosaic narrative, filled with a hypnotic chorus of voices, Cremation explores the coked-up champagne fizz of luxurious parties shadowed by underworlds of political corruption, prostitution, and ruthless financial speculation. The novel enters that melancholy ouroboros of capitalist greed that led to the financial crash and captures something essential about our values, our choices, and our all too human mistakes. Like William Faulkner or Francis Bacon, Chirbes stares, clear-eyed, into the abyss, and portrays us as we really are.

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Über die Autorin bzw. 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."

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Verlag
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0811224309
ISBN 13 
9780811224307
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
432
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