by Manuel Rivas · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420467931
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«Los libros arden mal» is the historical novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (616 pages, in Spanish).
A suspense novel that opens with the burning of libraries and interweaves the lives of books, people and language, from the 19th century to the present day. It features a laundress who watches movies in the river, an anarchist boxer, a tango singer and a Bible collector.
Originally published in Galician as «Os libros arden mal» and translated into Spanish by Dolores Vilavedra; part of Alfaguara's Hispánica collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary narrative, especially those seeking choral stories about memory, books and freedom.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
