Manuel Rivas, Author , trans. from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne. Overlook $23.95 (170p) ISBN 978-1-58567-467-1
Spain's legendary past returns to critique its prosaic present in this haunting novel. Journalist and novelist Rivas (The Carpenter's Pencil
) tells an episodic tale about the inhabitants of Arán, a Galician village fading into...
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Manuel Rivas, trans. from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne. Vintage, $14.95 trade paper (550p) ISBN 978-0-09-952033-7
“Even when things fall quiet, there are two classes of silence. A friendly silence that keeps us company, where words can be at leisure, and another silence. One that frightens.” Silence lies at the heart of the latest novel from Galician journalist
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Manuel Rivas, Author, Peter Mayer, Editor, Jonathan Dunne, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Jonathan Dunne. Overlook $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-58567-145-8
Dr. Daniel Da Barca is a Republican hero of the Spanish Civil War, an almost folkloric figure at the center of this lyrical though frequently impenetrable import. His story is related, in the spirit of Cervantes's Exemplary Tales, in a bar, by a
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Manuel Rivas, Author, Jonathan Dunne, Translator , trans. from the Galician by Jonathan Dunne. Overlook $21.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-59020-002-5
With simple grace, 16 stories by Galician-born journalist and author Rivas (The Carpenter's Pencil
) transport readers to rural Galicia, in northwest Spain. The 15-year-old carpenter's son of “Saxophone in the Mist” picks up...
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Manuel Rivas, trans. from the Galician by Jacob Rogers. Archipelago, $20 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-1-953861-32-0
Rivas (The Carpenter’s Pencil) offers a tender requiem for a venerable Spanish bookstore. In 2014, Terranova proprietor Vincenzo Fontana, facing eviction and the liquidation of his shop’s stock, looks back over his long life, recalling his...
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