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Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover)
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Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover)
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List price R609
Loot Price R541
Discovery Miles 5 410
You Save R68 (11%)
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"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.
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