The Low Voices

• Date de parution : 14/07/2016
• Editeur : Random House Digital
• EAN : 9781473511064
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• Support : Livre numérique

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• Thème : Non attribué
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The Low Voices is a novel about life, it is life itself telling stories, it is the memory of the quiet voices of the people I got to know.The Low Voices draws on a patchwork of memories from Rivas's early life under Franco. There's his beloved elder sister, María, who dies young; his mother, the... Voir plus

The Low Voices is a novel about life, it is life itself telling stories, it is the memory of the quiet voices of the people I got to know.The Low Voices draws on a patchwork of memories from Rivas's early life under Franco. There's his beloved elder sister, María, who dies young; his mother, the verbivore; his father, a construction worker with vertigo; and a supporting cast of local priests, chatty hairdressers, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies. The book is full of wonderful personal stories, set against a background of the ravages of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath at home, and the wider world as Coca-Cola sets up a factory nearby and news comes in of men landing on the moon.A brilliant coming-of-age novel from one of Spain's greatest storytellers, The Low Voices is a humorous and philosophical take on memory, belonging, and the nature of storytelling itself.