by Rafael Chirbes · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433924513
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«La caída de Madrid» is a novel by Rafael Chirbes, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (320 pages).
On 19 November 1975, with Franco dying, political uncertainty shakes characters from different social classes in Madrid. Businessmen, police officers, exiles, university students and workers cross paths in a web of ambitions, fears and pacts where the past conditions their future and betrayal looms as a path to salvation.
Second instalment of Rafael Chirbes's trilogy and number 281 in the Narrativas hispánicas collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the end of Francoism and historical memory.
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.
