by Manuel Rivas · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420442570
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«La mano del emigrante» is the novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Alfaguara in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
The book combines fiction, photography and journalism to portray emigration and Spanish historical memory. Castro works in a London hospital and shares stories with other emigrants at the Old Crow pub; his tattooed hand hides a secret about attachment and loss. It is completed with a photographic essay and a report on shipwrecked people.
Work published on April 2, 2001 in Alfaguara's Hispánica collection. Manuel Rivas received the National Prize for Spanish Letters 2024.
For readers of literary fiction interested in emigration, historical memory and the work of Manuel Rivas.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
