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100 1 $aRivas, Manuel,$d1957-
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245 10 $aBooks burn badly /$cManuel Rivas ; translated from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne.
260 $aLondon :$bHarvill Secker,$c2010.
300 $a548 pages ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"First published with the title Os libros arden mal in 2006 by Edicións Xerais de Galicia"--Title page verso.
546 $aTranslated from the Galician.
520 $aOn 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna 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.
505 0 $aOn 19 August 1936 -- the day that Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered -- books were burnt on the quayside at Coruna. From this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, and the ensuing years of Franco's dictatorship, Manuel Rivas interweaves memories, language and literature with an unforgettable array of characters to create a lively portrait of a people and a landscape, set against an historical panorama that stretches from the nineteenth century to our own times. This is a poet's evocation of his native land to which Jonathan Dunne's fine translation does full justice. Few novels become classics during their authors' lifetimes, but it seems safe to say that with Books Burn Badly, Manuel Rivas has placed his native Galicia firmly on the map of European literature. Indeed, in these pages Coruna, the capital of Spain's most north-westerly province, becomes as firmly fixed in the reader's mind as Dublin does in Joyce's Ulysses.
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