by Manuel Rivas · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466310413
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«Los libros arden mal» is the historical novel by Manuel Rivas, published by Punto de Lectura in hardback (832 pages, in Spanish).
The novel opens with a washerwoman who reads her people's history in the marks of the water, before a destructive fire razes everything. With a thriller structure, it spans from 1881 to the present day, interweaving voices and genres around the language of authoritarian power against the words that survive in the shadows.
Winner of the Spanish Critics' Prize and the National Critics' Prize in Galician. It was originally published in Galician as «Os libros arden mal».
For readers of literary fiction and historical novels interested in the power of the word against authoritarianism.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
