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On The Edge, Vol 1 by Holly Barbo6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() But other voices resound from the wreckage-soloists stepping forth from the choir-and their words, sharp as knives, crowd their terse, hypnotic monologues of ruin, prostitution, and loss.Ĭhirbes alternates this choir of voices with a majestic third-person narration, injecting a profound and moving lyricism and offering the hope that a new vitality can emerge from the putrid swamps. Much of the novel unfolds in Esteban’s raw and tormented monologues. Stuck in this town is Esteban-his small factory bankrupt, his investments stolen by a “friend,” and his unloved father, a mute invalid, entirely his personal burden. On the Edge opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain-a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and corruption. ![]() ![]() On the Edge is a monumental fresco of a brutal contemporary Spain in free fall ![]()
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