Books burn badly
Rivas, Manuel, 1957-2010
Book
On 19 August 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.
Main title:
Books burn badly / Manuel Rivas ; translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne.
Work:
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2010.
Collation:
548 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Galician.
ISBN:
9781846551468
Dewey class:
869.342F
Language:
EnglishGalician
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BRN:
258763