Manuel Rivas

Broschiertes Buch

Low Voices

Beschreibung

Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers and priests, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies. The community is still haunted by the civil war, yet Manuel's world is changing.

Autor

Manuel Rivas was born in Coruña in 1957, and writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He is well known for his journalism, as well as for his prize-winning short stories and novels, which include the internationally acclaimed The Carpenter's Pencil and Books Burn Badly. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 700608
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 149g
• ISBN-13: 9780099597438
• ISBN-10: 0099597438
• Artikelnr.: 47792224

Rezensionen

Beautiful... It resonates with memory, love and palpable grief... Rivas is special - funny, benign, opinionated. He tells wonderful stories because he learned early in life how to listen, and he listened to the soft, wise voices around him. Rivas misses nothing, and it is fascinating to see how, in The Low Voices, he does not tell us how he became a writer but shows us the people, such as his quiet, unassuming, determined mother, who helped make him one Eileen Battersby Irish Times, Books of the Year