Books Burn Badly by Rivas, Manuel

Books Burn Badly (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780099520337)

Vendor: Manuel Rivas
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$14.95
$14.95
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Books Burn Badly by Rivas, Manuel

Books Burn Badly

$14.95
Books Burn Badly by Rivas, Manuel

Books Burn Badly

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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A masterpiece of unusual beauty by one of Europe's greatest living writers--a brilliant evocation of the Spanish Civil War On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru 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 colorful tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a panorama of 20th-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.

Author: Manuel Rivas
ISBN-10: 0099520338
ISBN-13: 9780099520337
Publisher: Vintage UK
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 550
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2011
Booklist 10/01/2011 pg. 35
Library Journal 11/01/2011 pg. 73
By Manuel Rivas
By Manuel Rivas
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Manuel Rivas writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. A founding member of Greenpeace Spain, he is a major figure in Spanish literature, known 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 20 languages.

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