In 2003 the Galician writer Manuel Rivas, well known for his novels The Carpenters Pencil and Books Burn Badly , published in his native Galician language his collected poems, five books of poetry and a selection of recent poems, under the title Do desco&...
Sam is a drug addict with a sense of humour. One particular escapade lands him in hospital, where he makes friends with the old man in the adjoining bed and becomes progressively enamoured of the nurse Miss Cowbutts unsung qualities. In an attempt to wean...
From the author of "Low Voices" and "The Carpenter's Pencil", the book of short stories that set him on his way and revolutionized Galician literature when it came out at the end of the 1980s. For the first time, Galician prose...
Fins and Brinco are best friends and they both adore the wild and beautiful Leda. The three young friends spend their days exploring the dunes and picking through the treasures that the sea washes on to the shores of Galicia. One day as they are playing...
Many readers outside Spain do not know that the acclaimed novelist, Manuel Rivas, is a significant poet in his homeland, writing in his native Galician. This volume redresses the balance, offering a bilingual edition of his 2009 collection A desaparici&oa...
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. Butterflyâs Tongue is about a friendship between the boy and...
On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña 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.
It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Portico da Glor...
The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this collection of stories. The mystery of light in Vermeerâs famous painting inspires a writer; a travelling lingeri...