The Last Days of Terranova
Price for Eshop: 474 Kč (€ 19.0)
VAT 0% included
New
English
Expected delivery time 14-30 days
Book information
Archipelago Books
USA
2022
Oversized Paperback
400
Heavy
317039
978-1-953861-32-0
1-953861-32-6
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Annotation
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, Vincenzo 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 years in 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.
Ask question
You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.
Write new comment