Books Burn Badly EPUB
by Manuel Rivas
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On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru a 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 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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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:560 pages
- Publisher:Random House
- Publication Date:18/02/2010
- ISBN:9781409089490
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:560 pages
- Publisher:Random House
- Publication Date:18/02/2010
- ISBN:9781409089490