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Rafael Chirbes
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Rafael Chirbes

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Rafael Chirbes (1949–2015) wrote nine novels and received the National Prize for Literature and the Critics Prize for On the Edge. ABC named him 'the best writer of the twenty-first century in Spain'.

Books by Rafael Chirbes

On the Edge

A monumental fresco of contemporary Spain in free fall from ‘one of the greatest European authors of our time’ (Le Monde)

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