{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-terranova-paperback","title":"The Last Days of Terranova - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eManuel Rivas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJacob Rogers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rivas is a master... His pages bloom like flowers, swerving in unpredictable arcs toward a light-source that is constantly moving.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Terranova\u003c\/i\u003e tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it's set to close due to the greed of real-estate speculators. On this final day, Vincenzo spends the night in his beloved store filled with more than seventy years of fugitive histories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJumping from the present to various points in the past, the novel ferries us back to Vicenzo's childhood, when his father opened the store in 1935, to the years that the store was run by his Uncle Eliseo, and to the years in the lead-up to the democratic transition, which Vicenzo spent as far away from the bookstore as possible, in Madrid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike the bookstore itself, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Terranova\u003c\/i\u003e is a space crammed with stories, histories, and literary references, and as many nooks, crannies, and complexities, brought to life in Rivas's vital prose.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManuel Rivas Barrós\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning Galician writer, poet, screenwriter, and journalist, and considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature. He began his writing career at the age of 15, and has since published nine anthologies of poetry, fourteen novels, collected essays, and news articles. His 1998 novel \u003ci\u003eO lápis do carpinteiro\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Carpenter's Pencil\u003c\/i\u003e) is the most widely translated work in the history of Galician literature, and was also adapted to film. Rivas has received the Spanish Critics' Prize, the Galician Critics' Prize, the National Literature Prize for Narrative, the Spanish Critics' Prize, and the National Critics' Prize in Galician for \u003ci\u003eOs libros arden mal\u003c\/i\u003e, which was also named Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid. \u003cb\u003eJacob Rogers\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Galician prose and poetry. His translation of Carlos Casares's novel, \u003ci\u003eHis Excellency\u003c\/i\u003e, came out from Small Stations Press in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 6.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766284091680,"sku":"9781953861320","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f3efcc8684a8a115da26bc78c09d46cb.webp?v=1780289181","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-last-days-of-terranova-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}