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The acclaimed novel of Spain's economic crisis - a timely masterpiece. It's a despairing town filled with half-finished housing developments and unemployment, a place defeated by the burst of the economic bubble. As Esteban's disappointment and fury lead him to form a dramatic plan to reverse financial ruin, other voices float up from the wreckage.

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. 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. Much of the novel unfolds in Esteban's raw and tor...