Books Burn Badly
  • Published:
    Apr-2010 (Hardcover)
    Oct-2011 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    550
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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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    •  
    • Oct-2011
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099520338
    • ISBN13: 9780099520337
    • First Edition
    • Apr-2010
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1846551463
    • ISBN13: 9781846551468
    •  
    • Feb-2010
    • Vintage Digital
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Feb-2010
    • Random House
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409089495
    • ISBN13: 9781409089490



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