Books Burn Badly

By Manuel Rivas

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00A1A7U02
• ISBN13: 9780099520337
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.7"