Jun 7, 2016

THE LOW VOICES - Manuel Rivas

The Low Voices is a brilliant coming-of-age novel from one of Spain’s greatest storytellers. It draws on a patchwork of memories from Rivas’s early life in rural Galicia, and celebrates those individuals we all encounter in life but whose memory is drowned out by the ‘loud voices’ of history.

Full of wonderful personal stories and set against a background of the ravages of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, The Low Voices is a humorous and philosophical take on memory, belonging, and the nature of storytelling itself.

The cover incorporates snippets of the author’s own family photographs, and aims to capture something of the feeling of ‘morrinha’; a Galician word meaning a very particular kind of melancholy and longing for homeland.

Published in Hardback by Harvill Secker in July 2016

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