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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Manuel Rivas
|title=Books Burn Badly
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=I normally start with a brief summary of the novel I’m reviewing, but Rivas’ sprawling epic is close to impossible to do anything ‘brief’ with. While it starts in 1881, it’s the book burning witnessed by Hercules the boxer during the Spanish Civil War in 1936 which gives this novel its title and it floats through several other eras, eventually finishing more than a century after it started. Along the way, we meet a young washerwoman who sees souls in the river, Olinda the matchgirl, Gabriel the stammerer, and the Judge of Oklahoma, star of a series of Western novels Gabriel’s father reads.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520338</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edward Hogan
