Name: Lord of all the Dead
Price: 50.36 NZD
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Author: Javier Cercas
ISBN: 9780857058324

Type

Physical Book

Author

Javier Cercas

Publisher

Quercus

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780857058324

Lord of all the Dead

Javier Cercas (Author) · Quercus · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Lord of all the Dead "

"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest" WILLIAM BOYD "There is no-one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom" DAVID MILLS, The Times Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama? Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.

Javier Cercas

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Javier Cercas was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, in 1962. His work, translated into more than thirty languages, consists of the following novels: El móvil, El inquilino, El vientre de la ballena, Soldados de Salamina, La velocidad de la luz, Anatomía de un instante, Las leyes de la frontera, El impostor and El monarca de las sombras, almost all recognized with prestigious national and international awards. He has also published miscellaneous books –Una buena temporada, Relatos reales, La verdad de Agamenón and Formas de ocultarse– and essays –La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez and El punto ciego.
He has also received several awards for essays and journalism, and various recognitions for his career, such as the Prix Ulysse in France, or the Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino, the Premio Friuladria, the Premio Internazionale Città di Vigevano, or the Premio Sicilia, all in Italy.

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