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Books Burn Badly
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On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation. Out of this incident during the early months of Spain’s tragic civil war, Manuel Rivas weaves a colourful tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a panorama of twentieth-century Spanish history. For it is not only the lives of Hercules the boxer and his friends that are tainted by the unending conflict, but also those of a young washerwoman who sees souls in the clouded river water and the stammering son of a judge who uncovers his father’s hidden library.As the singed pages fly away on the breeze, their stories live on in the minds of their readers.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.368 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 560 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2011-2-3 |
| Imprint | |
| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099520338 |
| About The Author | Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruña in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He is well known in Spain for his journalism, as well as for his prize-winning short stories and novels, which include the internationally acclaimed The Carpenter's Pencil. His works have been translated into twenty languages. |
It's time for reviewers and sundry pundits to quit the flattering comparisons with Lorca, Joyce and Garcia Marquez. Manuel Rivas reads like no-one else on the planet…one of those novels to lavish on friends… Manuel Rivas' sweeping novel, translated into English for the first time, is an undoubted classic |
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| Other text | This is an exceptional book by an exceptional writer… a unique literary enterprise |
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