From the author of "Low Voices" and "The Carpenters 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 batteryoperated 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 mudflats of his childhood, and a prospective councillor is put off by the fish scales on a fishwifes hands. Manuel Rivas is Galicias 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 MiguelAnxo Murado and "Vicious" by Xurxo Borrazs.

Binding: Paperback;112 pages; Publisher: Small Stations Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 257.44 g; Dimensions: N/A

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