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Item Details
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THE LOW VOICES
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| By: |
Manuel Rivas, Jonathan Dunne (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846558670 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846558672 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
14 July, 2016 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Translated from: |
Galician |
| Description: |
Full of personal stories, set against a background of the ravages of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath at home, and the wider world as Coca-Cola sets up a factory nearby and news comes in of men landing on the moon, this coming-of-age novel offers a philosophical take on memory, belonging, and the nature of storytelling itself. |
| Synopsis: |
The Low Voices is a novel about life, it is life itself telling stories, it is the memory of the quiet voices of the people I got to know. The Low Voices draws on a patchwork of memories from Rivas' early life under Franco. There's his beloved elder sister, Maria; his mother, the verbivore; his father, a construction worker with vertigo; and a supporting cast of local priests, chatty hairdressers, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies. The book is full of wonderful personal stories, set against a background of the ravages of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath at home, and the wider world as Coca-Cola sets up a factory nearby and news comes in of men landing on the moon. A brilliant coming-of-age novel from one of Spain's greatest storytellers, The Low Voices is a humorous and philosophical take on memory, belonging, and the nature of storytelling itself. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Harvill Secker |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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