Books burn badly

Rivas, Manuel 1957- (Author). Dunne, Jonathan. (Added Author).

Summary: On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru�na 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781409089490 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 1409089495 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
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1 online resource (553 p.)
Publisher: London : Harvill Secker, 2010.