The Disappearance of Snow - Softcover

Rivas, Manuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848612214 ISBN 13: 9781848612211

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2012

Synopsis

Many readers outside Spain do not know that the acclaimed novelist, Manuel Rivas, is a significant poet in his homeland, writing in his native Galician. This volume redresses the balance, offering a bilingual edition of his 2009 collection A desaparición da neve, which, in an unusal move, was published in four national languages under one set of covers-Galician, Castilian, Catalan and Basque.

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About the Author

Manuel Rivas was born in Coruna, Galicia, in 1957. He graduated in Media Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and then worked as a journalist in the press, radio and television. As an author, he is best known for his six novels and six collections of short stories. Five volumes have been published in English: The Carpenter's Pencil (2001, novel), In the Wilderness (2006, novel), Books Burn Badly (2010, novel), Vermeer's Milkmaid (2002, stories), Butterfly's Tongue (2011, stoies). He is also a highly-regarded poet and essayist. All of his literary work is written in Galician. Some of his work has been filmed in Spain: La lengua de las mariposas (The Language of Butterflies), a story contained in his novel Que me quieres, amor?, directed by Jose Luis Cuerda, and El lapiz del carpintero (The Carpenter's Pencil), directed by Anton Reixa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848612214
• ISBN 13: 9781848612211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134