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The Low Voices
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Manuel is growing up in Franco’s Spain. He adores his elder sister, María, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys reciting poetry, and their father, a construction worker with vertigo. Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers and priests, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies.The community is still haunted by the civil war, yet Manuel’s world is changing. Coca-Cola opens a factory nearby and news arrives of men landing on the moon. This is a story about family, memory and the experiences that make us who we are.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.145 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | United Kingdom |
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| Pages | 176 |
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| Year Published | 2017-7-13 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099597438 |
| About The Author | Manuel Rivas was born in Coruña in 1957, and writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He is well known for his journalism, as well as for his prizewinning short stories and novels, which include the internationally acclaimed The Carpenter's Pencil and Books Burn Badly. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. |
Beautiful… It resonates with memory, love and palpable grief… Rivas is special – funny, benign, opinionated. He tells wonderful stories because he learned early in life how to listen, and he listened to the soft, wise voices around him. Rivas misses nothing, and it is fascinating to see how, in The Low Voices, he does not tell us how he became a writer but shows us the people, such as his quiet, unassuming, determined mother, who helped make him one |
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| Other text | One of Spain's best-known novelists… Rivas's imagery sparkles like dew in the morning sun |
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