by Manuel Rivas · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467223002
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«Los libros arden mal» is the novel by Manuel Rivas published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (600 pages, in Spanish).
Set in A Coruña in 1936, during the first days of the Civil War, the novel opens with the burning of books in the Dársena and weaves together lives, books and language in a story that runs from the nineteenth century to the present. Among its voices are a washerwoman, an anarchist boxer and a Bible collector, in a reflection on memory, repression and resistance.
Originally written in Galician as «Os libros arden mal», translated into Spanish by Dolores Vilavedra Fernández. Winner of the Cálamo Prize and the Galician Narrative Critics' Prize.
For readers interested in the Spanish Civil War, historical memory and the role of books as resistance.
Manuel Rivas Barrós is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
