El filo de la navaja

Synopsis of El filo de la navaja

«El filo de la navaja» is the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (318 pages, in Spanish).

The First World War changes Larry Darrell: he gives up his engagement to Isabel and finance, and travels through Paris, India and Tibet seeking the meaning of life. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Isabel moves on and the 1929 crash shakes fortunes and dreams. It is a novel about the human condition and the search for inner peace.

This 1985 edition translates The Razor's Edge, original of 1944, into Spanish. It is part of the Novela collection from Plaza & Janés.

For readers of twentieth-century classics, coming-of-age novels and stories of spiritual quest.