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The Smile and the Abyss

The Smile and the Abyss

Zarak Krumfort

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Zarak Krumfort
Año de edición:
2025
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9798231471522

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The Smile and the Abyss brings together four stories that shift between raw humor and disguised melancholy.From a small village where nothing ever happens to a washed-up actress desperate for an audience; from political illusions that turned into bureaucracy to Christmases soaked in failure - each narrative exposes both the ridiculous and the tragic sides of living in a world that rarely makes sense.Between irony and despair, what remains is laughter - the kind that clings to the abyss just to avoid falling with it.

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