by Rafael Chirbes · Antje Kunstmann Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783888978678
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«Am Ufer» is Rafael Chirbes's novel about the Spanish property crisis, published by Antje Kunstmann Verlag in hardback (400 pages, in German).
The novel follows Esteban, who invests his family carpentry business's assets in a construction company shortly before the property bubble bursts. With irony and sarcasm, Chirbes portrays the ruin of those who arrive late to the business, the corruption of money, and the social decay of a Spain in crisis.
German translation by Dagmar Ploetz of the original «En la orilla». Winner of the Premio Nacional de Narrativa and the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the Spanish crisis and family stories with a social backdrop.
Rafael Chirbes was a Spanish novelist. He was born in Tavernes de la Valldigna in Valencia. He is the author of several novels, two of which have won the Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana - Crematorio (2007) and En la orilla (2013). The latter also won the Premio Nacional de Narrativa.
