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On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. It is a moment which transforms a young group of friends, who just weeks before had spent their days sunbathing beneath the lighthouse, 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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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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"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."
--Scotsman
"His boldest take yet on the war's repercussions in his native Galicia... a work of unusual beauty."
--Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times
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--Scotsman
"His boldest take yet on the war's repercussions in his native Galicia... a work of unusual beauty."
--Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1846551463
- ISBN 13 9781846551468
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages560
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