Overview
After both their marriages collapse, two old friends take to sharing their lives again as they used to. They go out for drinks, have long conversations, and try, all in all, to hide away from the world. One day, one of them is stabbed to death in his apartment. His friend will then seek out the truth. An engaging combination of literary fiction and psychological thriller, Bad Light is the debut novel of the most prestigious short-story writer in Spain. A ruthless reflection on life and the human condition.
Full Product Details
Author: Carlos Castan
Publisher: Hispabooks Publishing
Imprint: Hispabooks Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9788494365850
ISBN 10: 8494365851
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 16 February 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
The first novel by a distinguished Spanish writer mainly known for his short stories turns out to be a primer in existential thinking about death and dying... Much of the action of the novel is internal and psychological and plays out against the intellectual background of writers like Marguerite Duras... A meditative and philosophical 'thriller'. -Kirkus Reviews; A heir to Javier Marias ... An outstanding stylistic narrative. A joyful discovery. -J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural; A powerful, harrowing and profound read brimming with literature... A very literary novel, excellently well-written. -Javier Velasco Oliaga; Everything in this great novel has a meaning and a sense of purpose ... The anonymous narrator accomplishes, through loss and death, true grandeur. -J. A. Masoliver Rodenas, La Vanguardia
Castan's intense literary style reflects his advanced studies in philosophy; his prose is dense with serious reflection, poetry, weaving his words with those of writers and thinkers such as Primo Levi, Marguerite Duras, Emil Cioran, and Paul Celan. Bad Light is chock-full of lines to be underlined about love, literature, art, loneliness, friendship, death, and old age. -Fjords Review; The first novel by a distinguished Spanish writer mainly known for his short stories turns out to be a primer in existential thinking about death and dying... Much of the action of the novel is internal and psychological and plays out against the intellectual background of writers like Marguerite Duras... A meditative and philosophical 'thriller'. -Kirkus Reviews; A heir to Javier Marias ... An outstanding stylistic narrative. A joyful discovery. -J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural; A powerful, harrowing and profound read brimming with literature... A very literary novel, excellently well-written. -Javier Velasco Oliaga; Everything in this great novel has a meaning and a sense of purpose ... The anonymous narrator accomplishes, through loss and death, true grandeur. -J. A. Masoliver Rodenas, La Vanguardia
Author Information
Carlos Castan is a Spanish writer born in Barcelona in 1960. He is considered one of the best short-story writers in Spain at the moment. Bad Light is his first novel. He lives in Zaragoza.
