Ghosts of Spain Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

Name: Ghosts of Spain Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
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ISBN: 9780802716743

ISBN-10: 0802716741

ISBN-13: 9780802716743

Edition: 2008

Authors: Giles Tremlett

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"Part modern social history, part travelogue, "Ghosts of Spain "is held together by elegant first-person prose...an invaluable book...[that] has become something of a bible for those of us "extranjeros "who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present."--Sarah Wildman, "New York Times Book Review "The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting"--the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.20" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: The Edge of a Barber's Razor



Secretos a Voces



Looking for the Generalisimo



Amnistia and Amnesia: The Pact of Forgetting



How the Bikini Saved Spain



Anarchy, Order and a Real Pair of Balls



The Mean Streets of Flamenco



Clubs and Curas



Men and Children First



11-M: Moros y Cristianos



In the Shadow of the Serpent and the Axe



The Madness of Verdaguer



Coffins, Celts and Clothes



Moderns and Ruins


Afterword


Acknowledgements


Index