"It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a prison in the pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Portico da Gloria. He uses a carpenter's pencil. But instea[...]

A multi-layered tale full of tenderness, humor, and a cast of animals, birds, and people relates magical stories that make up an amalgamation of the traditions, legends, language, and history of the author's beloved homeland. Original.[...]

On 19 August 1936, Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. Out of this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, the author weaves a tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a pano[...]

Ab 3. Lernjahr Der Beginn des spanischen Bürgerkriegs aus der Sicht eines Kindes und die Erlebnisse eines Jugendlichen am Ende der Franco-Zeit: Die Erzählungen 'La lengua de las mariposas ' von Manuel Rivas und 'El lado de la luz' von Almudena Grandes bezeichnen Anfang und Ende einer [...]

These are the voices of children, women, immigrants, animals and the dead. The voices of those who have no wish to lead and feed off of words and stories. Written as an autobiography, everything in this novel seems real and unreal at the same time as memories are wont to do. Opening in a real geogra[...]

"I did a lot of bad things, but when I was before the painter I murmured to myself that I was sorry, that I wished I didn't have to, and I don't know what he thought when our eyes met, a moist blaze in the night, but I want to believe he understood, he saw that I was doing it to save him torment. Wi[...]