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On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation.

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In the summer of 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War that plunged Spain into three tears of agony and terror, eight-year-old Moncho is beginning his first day at school. while in Carmina the boy listens as an old man relates how a village dog named Tarzan used to frustrate him in his attempts to woo his beloved.

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A glorious cast of animals and birds, as well as humans, relate the magical stories that form the plot of Manuel Rivas's extraordinary novel. In a nearby cellar, half the parish are found to have transmigrated into spiders, snails, toads-Manuel Rivas's story emerges like spirals of smoke, in a series of memorably poetic images.

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The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this collection of stories.

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Manuel Rivas delivers a literary masterpiece about three young friends growing up in a community which is bound by a conspiracy of silence


Fins and Brinco are best friends, and they both adore the wild and beautiful Leda.

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In a prison in Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral. He uses a carpenter's pencil. Instead of reproducing the faces of the prophets on the sculptured portal, he replaces them with the faces of his fellow Republican prison inmates.

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Vicenzo Fontana's family bookstore, Terranova, has been a shelter for dissent for more than sixty years, but it is only when he meets an Argentine woman, Garua, that he begins to appreciate books, just as speculators endanger the shop.

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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.