Books Burn Badly

Books Burn Badly
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 563
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ISBN-10 : 9781409089490
ISBN-13 : 1409089495
Rating : 4/5 (495 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Books Burn Badly by : Manuel Rivas

Download or read book Books Burn Badly written by Manuel Rivas and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña 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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