by Álvaro Cunqueiro · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423306763
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«Las crónicas del sochantre» is the fantasy novel by Álvaro Cunqueiro, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century Brittany, the precentor Charles Anne de Crozón is abducted by a procession of the dead who force him to entertain them with music. For three years he shares a funeral carriage with them, listens to the stories of how they died, and discovers a more intense way of living as the French Revolution approaches.
Translation into Spanish of «As crónicas do sochantre», a work originally written in Galician and winner of the National Critics' Prize in 1959. Edition number 34 of the Destinolibro collection.
For readers of fantasy fiction and of twentieth-century Galician literary classics.
Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia. He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. In 1991, Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him.
