The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas

The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas

A sweeping story of youth and age, war and peace, love, friendship and the quest for meaning

‘Cercas's writing has echoes of Scott Fitzgerald in the intense, shining clarity of its emotion, and of Faulkner' * Independent *
‘A deeply affecting novelA reflection on war, friendship, success and failure ... Cercas's novel carries a powerful warning for the war-hungry modern world' * Scotland on Sunday *
‘Presents his narrator's foibles in a lucid, supple prose, well-matched to the novel's darker elements' * Financial Times *
‘Engrossing ... it has verve and flair' * Time Out *

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and essayist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis, which was a huge international success selling nearly 1 million copies worldwide, being translated into twenty languages and winning Cercas and Anne McLean the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction. Anne McLean has translated Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, memoirs and other writings by writers including Carmen Martín Gaite, Orlando González Esteva, Julio Cortázar and Tomás Eloy Martínez. Her translation of Soldiers of Salamis also won her the 2004 Valle Inclán Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780747585916
ISBN 10	0747585911
Title	The Speed of Light
Author	Javier Cercas
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2007-08-06
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2008
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