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On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru?a and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. It is a moment which transforms a young group of friends, who just weeks before had spent their days sunbathing beneath the lighthouse, into a broken generation.Out of this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, Manuel Rivas weaves a colourful tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a panorama of twentieth-century Spanish history. For it is not only the lives of Hercules the boxer and his friends that are tainted by the unending conflict, but also those of a young washerwoman who sees souls in the clouded river water and the stammering son of a judge who uncovers his father's hidden library. As the singed pages fly away on the breeze, their stories live on in the minds of their readers.
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On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru?a and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. It is a moment which transforms a young group of friends, who just weeks before had spent their days sunbathing beneath the lighthouse, into a broken generatio
On August 19, 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru?a and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. It is a moment which transforms a young group of friends, who just weeks before had spent their days sunbathing beneath the lighthouse, into a broken generatio
Cate roams the world a shell of the deity she once wasβa dry remark in one hand and a penchant for conflict in the other. Ordered by Hades to stand down or lose her soul forever, HecateβGoddess of the Crossroadsβmust bear witness to something sinister brewing in the bowels of the city. Isis is build