Cremation by Rafael Chirbes (2021, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811224309
ISBN-139780811224307
eBay Product ID (ePID)18050080567

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Book TitleCremation
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicPsychological, Political
GenreFiction
AuthorRafael Chirbes
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-037305
ReviewsUtterly convincing in its psychological details, but also memorable for the beauty of its writing and rhythms., A man's death stirs thoughts among his family and friends, who are also connected by their experience of Spain's economic surge through the early aughts. A challenging excursion from one of Europe's most distinctive voices., Chirbes imbues the characters with passion and intellect...what emerges is a strong sense of late 20th-century Spanish culture and politics., The works of the late Spanish novelist Rafael Chirbes offer a rebuke to what we might call lifestyle literature. Two of his final novels, Cremation and On the Edge, both published in translation by New Directions, reclaim a decayed form of modernism to castigate the late aughts' feast of mammon., Rafael Chirbes is a master of the kind of Spanish literature that shines most brightly in lyrical descriptive passages and powerful metaphors., Chirbes' novel is a quite powerful book of testimonies and experiences, an indictment of post-Franco Spain that has barreled more or less blindly ahead, damn to many of the consequences.
SynopsisAlong 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., An overflowing, mesmeric masterpiece about greed from "one of the most remarkable authors on the Spanish scene" (The Guardian)
LC Classification NumberPQ6653.H6C7413 2021

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