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Books Burn Badly
Manuel Rivas
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Description for Books Burn Badly
Paperback. On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna 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. Translator(s): Dunne, Jonathan. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 384.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099520337
SKU
V9780099520337
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-25
About Manuel Rivas
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.
Reviews for Books Burn Badly
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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