Lord of All the Dead - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED FIRST PRINTING

Cercas, Javier

ISBN 10: 0857058320 / ISBN 13: 9780857058324

Published by MacLehose Press, 2019

About this Item

Fine first printing in fine dust wrapper. As new, unread copy. Signed, dated and located by the author to the title page 'Hay-on-Wye 1, June, 2019'. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lord of All the Dead - SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED FIRST PRINTING
• Publisher: MacLehose Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857058320
• ISBN 13: 9780857058324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history.

Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading
perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama?

Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.