by Manuel Rivas · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429759143
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«Els llibres fan de mal cremar» is the literary novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (528 pages, in Catalan).
Set in A Coruña in 1936, it opens with the burning of libraries in the dock and crosses the destinies of books, people and language in a tale of intrigue spanning from 1881 to the present. A washerwoman reads her people's memory in the signs of the water, while the narrative oscillates between authoritarian atrocity and indomitable freedom.
Translated into Catalan by Lluís Felip Aced, it is part of the El Balancí collection. It won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Galega and the Premio Cálamo in 2006.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about books, libraries and cultural memory.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
