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Overview"From the author of ""Low Voices"" and ""The Carpenter's Pencil"", the book of short stories that set him on his way and revolutionized Galician literature when it came out at the end of the 1980s. For the first time, Galician prose dealt with the Galician landscape in a modern context, uniting tradition and modernity, placing the poetry of landscape alongside the irony of modern society. In ""One Million Cows"", a collection of eighteen short stories by Manuel Rivas, the first he published, a boy tries to find out if his cousin is really a battery-operated robot, a sailor who has been shipwrecked at sea turns up dead in a local bar, the inhabitants of a village transport a young suicide so that he can be buried in an adjoining parish, a Galician who has recently returned from England dreams of building a golf course on the mud-flats of his childhood, and a prospective councillor is put off by the fish scales on a fishwife's hands. Manuel Rivas is Galicia's most international author, and once again the reader will be able to enjoy his striking metaphors, his commitment to what he writes, and his lingering eye for detail. Other titles in the series Small Stations Fiction include: ""Polaroid"" by Suso de Toro, ""Soundcheck: Tales from the Balkan Conflict"" by Miguel-Anxo Murado and ""Vicious"" by Xurxo Borrazás." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Manuel Rivas , Jonathan DunnePublisher: Small Stations Press Imprint: Small Stations Press Volume: 1 Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.136kg ISBN: 9789543840359ISBN 10: 9543840350 Pages: 112 Publication Date: 29 June 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |