El hallazgo de un cadaver en el pantano de Olba pone en marcha la narracion. Su protagonista, Esteban, se ha visto obligado a cerrar la carpinteria de la que era dueno, dejando sin trabajo a sus empleados. Mientras se encarga de cuidar a su padre, enfermo en fase terminal, Esteban indaga en los motivos de una ruina que asume en su doble papel de victima y de verdugo, y entre cuyos escombros encontramos los valores que han regido una sociedad, un mundo y un tiempo. La novela nos obliga a mirar hacia ese espacio fangoso que siempre estuvo ahi, aunque durante anos nadie parecia estar dispuesto a asumirlo, a la vez lugar de uso y abismo donde se han ocultado delitos y se han lavado conciencias privadas y publicas. Heredero de la mejor tradicion del realismo, el estilo de esta novela se sostiene por un lenguaje directo y un tono obsesivo que atrapa al lector desde la primera linea volviendolo complice. / The story opens with the discovery of a body in the Olba marshes. This novel forces us to look into a murky space that has always existed. It is at once a useful space and an abyss where crimes have been hidden and both private and public consciences have been washed clean.
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The author of nine novels and the winner of the National Prize for Literature and the Critics Prize for On the Edge, Rafael Chirbes (born in Valencia in 1949) is the best writer of the twenty-first century in Spain (ABC).
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