A Galician novel of rare eloquence
All is Silence by Manuel Rivas. Harvill Secker, €21.40. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
All is Silence by Manuel Rivas
Harvill Secker, €21.40
Reviewed by Joanne Hayden
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The crime boss in All is Silence wears a white panama hat. He first appears in a tumbledown school known locally as the School of Indians. He loves Westerns and thinks there's no one like John Wayne.
Later, as an older but equally fearsome adversary, he ponders the flipside of technological advances: "The phone had destroyed the cowboy's way ...