Lord of All the Dead

Javier Cercas, Anne McLean

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Headline
09 April 2019

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction; Fiction in translation; Spanish Civil War; Local interest, family history & nostalgia

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.

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

By: Javier Cercas
Translated by: Anne McLean
Imprint: Headline
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 402g
ISBN: 9780857058331
ISBN 10: 0857058339
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.

Reviews for Lord of All the Dead

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 -- Jose Maria Pozuelo Yvancos * ABC * An admirable novel, truly unique -- Alberto Moreiras * La marea * An excellent novel . . . fascinating both in its exploration of the past and in the playful creativity of its own narrative. -- Angel Basanta * El Cultural * A brave, persuasive novel -- Jose-Carlos Mainer * El Pais *