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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 Coruņa 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.
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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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"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
"A novelistic tour-de-force . . . hauntingly poetic use of language and light touch . . . Rivas never loses faith in the human ability to overcome the bleakest of situations." —Irish Times
"An important storyteller . . . He is sensitive and has an incredible ear, which, in his fiction, is allied to great ingenuity." —John Berger, author, Ways of Seeing, on The Carpenter's Pencil
"A beautiful novel, filled with tenderness and humanity." —Arturo Perez-Reverte, author, The Club Dumas, on The Carpenter's Pencil
"an epic and resoundingly lyrical refutation of totalitarianism and cruelty."—Publishers Weekly
"As vivid as Orhan Pamuk, as learned as Alvaro Mutis, Rivas writes magnificently, and Dunne’s translation will take one’s breath away on nearly every page."—Booklist
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- PublisherVintage UK
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0099520338
- ISBN 13 9780099520337
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages550
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