A Spanish family torn apart by the Civil War. A story of exile, love, and loss in Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Mexico. A marriage embittered by disappointment, a boy struck by lightning and a young woman running headlong into a personal hell. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 154. . 2003. paperback. . . . .

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Title: Not Only Fire
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0571209017
ISBN 13: 9780571209019
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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A Spanish family torn apart by the Civil War. A story of exile, love and loss in Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Mexico. A marriage embittered by disappointment, a small boy struck by lightning, and a young woman running headlong into a personal hell. This is the drama of Benjamn Prado's Not Only Fire.Prado introduces us to four generations of an everyday - and yet extraordinary - Spanish family. Grandfather Truman is the son of Republicans purged under Franco; Samuel and Ruth are a married couple, their past full of youthful dreams and promises, who now face a humdrum future; their young daughter Martha is caught in an intense but self-destructive relationship; and their ten-year-old son Maceo is obsessed by the sky, and the stories Truman tells him of travels, secrets and tragedies. Each member of the family is close to the edge - and anything could happen, from forgiveness to murder . . .'Eighteen-year-old Marta goes to parties where the kids drink and snog to Sonic Youth. This could be England. But her leftist family is scarred by four decades under Franco.' Observer

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Benjamin Prado was born in Madrid in 1961. He has published several volumes of poetry and a series of novels: Raro (1995), Donde crees que vas y quien te crees que eres (1996), Nunca le des la mano a un pistolero zurdo / Never Shake Hands with a Left-handed Gunman (1996), and Alguien se acerca (1998). No solo el fuego / Not Only Fire was first published in Spain in 1999, and won the prestigious Premio Andalucia de Novela.

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