Manuel Rivas

• Dec-2000
• / General Fiction
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The acclaimed Galician author’s novel of the Spanish Civil War is “a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history” (The Guardian).   Novelist and El País journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of th...

• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this collection of stories. The mystery of light in Vermeer's famous painting inspires a writer; a travelling lingerie salesman is...

• Feb-2006
• / Suspense
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• Apr-2010
• / General Fiction
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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 inci...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2022
• / Literary
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A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life “Rivas is a master… His pages bloom like flowers, swerving in unpredictable arcs toward...