Con «Os comedores de patacas» Xerais reedita un dos libros máis emotivos e lidos de Manuel Rivas. O protagonista da novela é Sam, un adolescente enganchado na droga que habita nos lindes da delincuencia. A vida de Sam, retratada desde o profundo lirismo e a poesía íntima que emana da narrativa de Rivas, móvese a cabalo entre dous espazos, entre dúas culturas, a urbana e a rural, que se xuntan no sincretismo que preside o cotián deste adolescente galego. O paro, o walkman, o teléfono, o rap, os colegas, o contacto co sexo, o ruído dos tractores, o poder da amizade, as ensoñacións do protagonista, un accidente de coche, a incomunicación, ese Algo que Sam se mete, o reencontro coa aldea, a avoa... constitúen os referentes vitais dun protagonista rebelde e entrañable, que camiña pola vida empuxado polo optimismo. O Manuel Rivas de «Os comedores de patacas» é un escritor limpo, que tece a súa narrativa desde a sinxeleza, o humor e unha inesgotable capacidade para contar con axilidade, con ritmo e con precisión.
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Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist. Manuel Rivas Barrós began his writing career at the age of 15. He has written articles and literature essays for Spanish newspapers and television stations like Televisión de Galicia, El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El País, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16 in Galicia. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, and played an important role during the 2002 Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast. As of 2017, Rivas has published 9 anthologies of poetry, 14 novels and several literature essays. He is considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature. His 1996 book "Que me queres, amor?", a series of sixteen short stories, was adapted by director José Luis Cuerda for his film "A lingua das bolboretas" ("Butterfly's Tongue"). His 1998 novel "O lápis do carpinteiro" ("The Carpenter's Pencil") has been published in nine countries and it is the most widely translated work in the history of Galician literature. It also was adapted to cinema as "O Lápis do Carpinteiro".
