Praise
PRAISE FOR MANUEL RIVAS
by Manuel Rivas
Translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers
Published: November 15, 2022
Paperback ISBN: 9781953861320
Ebook ISBN: 9781953861337
The Last Days of Terranova 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, Vicenzo spends the night in his beloved store, filled with more than seventy years of fugitive histories. Jumping 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 lead-up to the democratic transition, which Vicenzo spent as far away from the bookstore as possible in Madrid. Like the bookstore itself, The Last Days of Terranova 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.
The Last Days of Terranova is available as an audiobook here.
PRAISE FOR MANUEL RIVAS