It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of M???gina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of traces of the poet--notes, photographs, journals--and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his ...
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It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of M???gina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscure republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of traces of the poet--notes, photographs, journals--and Minaya soon discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War, both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the beautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of In???s, a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana's lost masterpiece, a novel called Beatus Ille . Looking for a book, he unravels a crime.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Hardcover. Size: 5x0x8; First Edition. New, unused. Free of any markings and no writings For any additional information or pictures, please inquire. inside.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. Stated First American edition, first printing with full letter line. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A pristine and like new copy, appears unread. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.
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As New in As New jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing) and is Signed by the translator( Edith Grossman) on the title page.
