Cercas, Javier
Summary: "From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: "A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marain is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misaerables. Then his mother was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CERCercas, Javier
Summary: An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018