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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525520902
ISBN-13
9780525520900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038428179
Product Key Features
Original Language
Spanish
Book Title
Lord of All the Dead : a Nonfiction Novel
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Biographical, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-016660
Reviews
"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest." --William Boyd "Javier Cercas's last book, The Impostor, is, in its compassion and generosity, one of the most accomplished books I've ever read. His new novel is even better . . . Moving . . . Beautifully achieved . . . There is no one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom. It is powerful stuff." --David Mills, The Sunday Times "Poignant and memorable . . . A lucid and immensely human study not only of the pity and futility of war but also of the enduring wounds it leaves in a society . . . Lord of All the Dead is a virtuoso performance from a writer who is able to be both a historian and novelist simultaneously . . . A powerful and strikingly original portrait of a country whose history is a nightmare from which it cannot wake." --Annie McDermott, Times Literary Supplement Selections from the international reviews: Spain "Only Cercas could have written a novel like this, at the peak of his maturity as a writer; he is one of the best we have." --José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC "A brave, persuasive novel." --José-Carlos Mainer, El País "An excellent novel . . . fascinating both in its exploration of the past and in the playful creativity of its own narrative." --Ángel Basanta, El Cultural "An admirable novel, truly unique." --Alberto Moreiras, La Marea "A book that moves, intrigues, and lucidly questions--along with offering answers--the collective importance of our most fateful, dramatic decisions as individuals." --Jesús Ferrer, La Razón France "A magisterial book on the hazardous trajectory of one man." --J ean-Claude Raspiengeas, La Croix "The new apex of an already fascinating body of work." -- Alexandre Fillon, Lire "A book even more radical, daring, and important than anything this greatest contemporary Spanish writer has ever attempted before." --Yann Perreau, Les Inrockuptibles "A magnificent book." --Gérard de Cortanze, Historia, "A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest." --William Boyd "Javier Cercas's last book, The Impostor, is, in its compassion and generosity, one of the most accomplished books I've ever read. His new novel is even better . . . Moving . . . Beautifully achieved . . . There is no one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom. It is powerful stuff." --David Mills, The Sunday Times "Poignant and memorable . . . A lucid and immensely human study not only of the pity and futility of war but also of the enduring wounds it leaves in a society . . . Lord of All the Dead is a virtuoso performance from a writer who is able to be both a historian and novelist simultaneously . . . A powerful and strikingly original portrait of a country whose history is a nightmare from which it cannot wake." --Annie McDermott, Times Literary Supplement "A brave political and family history . . . One of the strengths of Lord of All the Dead is the breadth of its subject matter . . . In this elegant and penetrating narrative Cercas shows us how important it is that Mena's life is not forgotten . . . Superb." --Nick Major, The Herald (Scotland) "A subversive and disenchanted view of war in general and the Spanish conflict in particular, in a fine translation by Anne McLean . . . It can be moving, unexpectedly funny, racy, demotic, or deadpan." --Lee Langley, Spectator "Cercas's candid wranglings with how to tell this tale, his own deep discomfort and the grave maturity with which he acknowledges he can't feel morally superior to Mena make him a wonderfully warm and wise guide." --Siobhan Murphy, The Times Selections from the international reviews: Spain "Only Cercas could have written a novel like this, at the peak of his maturity as a writer; he is one of the best we have." --José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC "A brave, persuasive novel." --José-Carlos Mainer, El País "An excellent novel . . . fascinating both in its exploration of the past and in the playful creativity of its own narrative." --Ángel Basanta, El Cultural "An admirable novel, truly unique." --Alberto Moreiras, La Marea "A book that moves, intrigues, and lucidly questions--along with offering answers--the collective importance of our most fateful, dramatic decisions as individuals." --Jesús Ferrer, La Razón France "A magisterial book on the hazardous trajectory of one man." --J ean-Claude Raspiengeas, La Croix "The new apex of an already fascinating body of work." -- Alexandre Fillon, Lire "A book even more radical, daring, and important than anything this greatest contemporary Spanish writer has ever attempted before." --Yann Perreau, Les Inrockuptibles "A magnificent book." --Gérard de Cortanze, Historia
Synopsis
In this deeply personal work of historical interrogation, Javier Cercas--"the bard of the] movement for the recovery of Spain's suppressed memory" ( The New York Times Book Review )--unpacks the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by way of his own family's history. Growing up, Cercas was inculcated with the legend of his beloved great-uncle, Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is now an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? In Lord of All the Dead , Cercas pieces together the life of his enigmatic relative and in so doing tells the story of an entire generation. Combining intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, and a novelist's imagination, Cercas has crafted a transcendent portrait of a country's indelible scars, a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history., In this deeply personal work of historical interrogation, Javier Cercas--"the bard of [the] movement for the recovery of Spain's suppressed memory" ( The New York Times Book Review )--unpacks the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by way of his own family's history. Growing up, Cercas was inculcated with the legend of his beloved great-uncle, Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is now an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? In Lord of All the Dead , Cercas pieces together the life of his enigmatic relative and in so doing tells the story of an entire generation. Combining intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, and a novelist's imagination, Cercas has crafted a transcendent portrait of a country's indelible scars, a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history., From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco's army. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? Is it possible to be a moral person defending an immoral cause? Through visits back to his parents' village in southern Spain, interviews with survivors, and research into the murkiest corners of the war, the author pieces together the life of this enigmatic figure and of an entire generation. This sui generis work combines intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, war stories, and road trips, finally becoming a transcendent portrait of a country's indelible scars--a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history.
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