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Books Burn Badly
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ISBN
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9781846551468
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Publisher
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Harvill Secker
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Subject
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Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)
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Binding
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HARDCOVER
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Pages
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560
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Year
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2010
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On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer standson the quayside at CoruxF1;a 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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Author Biography
MANUEL RIVAS was born in A CoruxF1;a 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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