The low voices: Manuel Rivas - Brossura
Manuel is growing up in Franco's Spain. He adores his elder sister, María, and they are watched over by their mother, who enjoys reciting poetry, and their father, a construction worker with vertigo. 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. Coca-Cola opens a factory nearby and news arrives of men landing on the moon. This is a story about family, memory and the experiences that make us who we are.
The community is still haunted by the civil war, yet Manuel's world is changing. Coca-Cola opens a factory nearby and news arrives of men landing on the moon. This is a story about family, memory and the experiences that make us who we are.
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"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)
"One of Spain's best-known novelists... Rivas's imagery sparkles like dew in the morning sun" (Michael Eaude Literary Review)
"Rivas has an appealing lyrical style, an offbeat humour and a translator well attuned to both." (Times Literary Supplement)
"The nature of this book means it can be enjoyed as a single straight story or as individual chapters. It’s one to leave by the bedside, to dip into every now and then, and enjoy over and over. Something, I think, I’ll be doing a lot." (Jim Dempsey Bookmunch)
"An affecting, impressionistic novel-cum-memoir. Like all great autobiographical writing, it pulls the magic trick of making the specific and personal universally appealing." (Juanita Coulson Lady)
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"One of Spain's best-known novelists... Rivas's imagery sparkles like dew in the morning sun" (Michael Eaude Literary Review)
"Rivas has an appealing lyrical style, an offbeat humour and a translator well attuned to both." (Times Literary Supplement)
"The nature of this book means it can be enjoyed as a single straight story or as individual chapters. It’s one to leave by the bedside, to dip into every now and then, and enjoy over and over. Something, I think, I’ll be doing a lot." (Jim Dempsey Bookmunch)
"An affecting, impressionistic novel-cum-memoir. Like all great autobiographical writing, it pulls the magic trick of making the specific and personal universally appealing." (Juanita Coulson Lady)
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 prizewinning 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.
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- EditoreRandom UK
- Data di pubblicazione2017
- ISBN 10 0099597438
- ISBN 13 9780099597438
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine176
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