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Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover): Javier Cercas

Lord of All the Dead (Hardcover)

Javier Cercas; Translated by Anne McLean

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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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Imprint: MacLehose Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2019
Authors: Javier Cercas
Translators: Anne McLean
Dimensions: 217 x 148 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 978-0-85705-832-4
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
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LSN: 0-85705-832-0
Barcode: 9780857058324

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