by Rafael Chirbes · Kunstmann Antje GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783888973635
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«Alte Freunde» is the novel by Rafael Chirbes published by Kunstmann Antje GmbH in hardcover (236 pages, in German).
A group of old comrades, united in their youth by a revolutionary project, gathers for a dinner years later. The voices of a builder, a painter, a teacher, an advertising woman and a failed novelist follow one another, revealing guilt, disillusionment and betrayal, and the contradictions between private miseries and ideological emptiness.
German translation by Dagmar Ploetz of the Spanish original «Los viejos amigos», published in 2003; third installment of the Trilogy.
For those seeking a choral novel about memory, ideological disenchantment and the wounds of the past, with several first-person voices.
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.
