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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Carlos Alba
|title=The Songs of Manolo Escobar
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Antonio is the second-born son to Spanish parents, living in Glasgow. He's embarrassed to be anything other than Scottish, and he tries everything to hide his family background from friends at school, refusing to speak Spanish with his parents and struggling to forge his own identity in life. In his middle age, he suddenly finds his life falling apart around him as his marriage begins to fail and his increasingly frail father becomes obsessed with the proper burial of his parents back in Spain. Antonio continues to play a rather emotionally distant part in his parents' lives, but then finds himself drawn further and further into the truth about his father's past which, ultimately, leads him to question his own past and the path his future might take.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697173X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ann Patchett
