Books Burn Badly - Softcover

Rivas, Manuel

 
9780099520337: Books Burn Badly
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099520338 ISBN 13: 9780099520337
Verlag: Vintage, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099520338
ISBN 13 
9780099520337
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
560
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