Lord of All the Dead

By: Javier Cercas

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Hardcover | 4 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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21.7 x 14.7 x 2.9

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"A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest" WILLIAM BOYD

"There is no-one writing in English like this: engaged humanity achieving a hard-won wisdom" DAVID MILLS, The Times

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history.

Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading

perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama?

Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author's mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.

Industry Reviews

A brave, persuasive novel - El Pais

An excellent novel . . . fascinating both in its exploration of the past and in the playful creativity of its own narrative. - El Cultural

An admirable novel, truly unique - La marea

Only Cercas could have written a novel like this, at the peak of his maturity as a writer; he is one of the best we have - ABC

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