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Ghosts Of Spain - Travels Through Spain And Its Silent Past

by Giles Tremlett
Ghosts Of Spain - Travels Through Spain And Its Silent Past - Thryft
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Spain's haunted past revealed in captivating journey.

Recommended for readers interested in Spanish history, culture, and society. The author's deep understanding and empathy for the people of Spain make this book a unique and captivating journey through the country's haunted past. The book not only provides a historical account of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath but also examines the impact of this traumatic episode on the lives of modern-day Spaniards. Evocative and thought-provoking, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Spain's history and culture.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Ghosts Of Spain - Travels Through Spain And Its Silent Past

by Giles Tremlett
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ISBN: 9780802715746
Authors: Giles Tremlett
Publisher: Walker Books
Date of Publication: 2007-02-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Politics, History, Travel
Related Topics: History, European History, Politics, Historical, History
Goodreads rating: 3.92
(rated by 3677 readers)

Description

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 charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe’s most voluble people have kept silent so long.  Ghosts of Spain is the fascinating result of that journey. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Delving  into such emotional questions as who caused the Civil War, why Basque terrorists kill, why Catalans hate Madrid, and whether the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dreamed of a return to Spain’s Moorish past, Tremlett finds the ghosts of the past everywhere. At the same time, he offers trenchant observations on more quotidian aspects of Spanish life today: the reasons, for example, Spaniards dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor’s white coat, and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing.  Drawing on the author’s twenty years of experience living in Spain, Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe’s most exciting countries.
 

Spain's haunted past revealed in captivating journey.

Recommended for readers interested in Spanish history, culture, and society. The author's deep understanding and empathy for the people of Spain make this book a unique and captivating journey through the country's haunted past. The book not only provides a historical account of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath but also examines the impact of this traumatic episode on the lives of modern-day Spaniards. Evocative and thought-provoking, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Spain's history and culture.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.