ONE MILLION COWS, RIVAS, MANUEL, ISBN: 9789543840359

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RIVAS, MANUEL

ONE MILLION COWS

978-954-384-035-9 / 9789543840359

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Autor:
RIVAS, MANUEL
Editorial:
SMALL STATIONS PRESS
Año:
2023
Colección:
< Genérica >
Materia:
Literatura gallega. Novela y cuento.

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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 dealt with the Galician landscape in a modern context, uniting tradition and modernity, placing the poetry of landscape alongside the irony of modern society. In "One Million Cows", a collection of eighteen short stories by Manuel Rivas, the first he published, a boy tries to find out if his cousin is really a battery-operated robot, a sailor who has been shipwrecked at sea turns up dead in a local bar, the inhabitants of a village transport a young suicide so that he can be buried in an adjoining parish, a Galician who has recently returned from England dreams of building a golf course on the mud-flats of his childhood, and a prospective councillor is put off by the fish scales on a fishwife's hands. Manuel Rivas is Galicia's most international author, and once again the reader will be able to enjoy his striking metaphors, his commitment t