Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past

Nonfiction, Travel, Europe, Spain & Portugal, Adventure & Literary Travel
Cover of the book Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett, Faber and Faber
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Author: Giles Tremlett ISBN: 9780571247905
Publisher: Faber and Faber Publication: October 2, 2008
Imprint: Faber and Faber Language: English
Author: Giles Tremlett
ISBN: 9780571247905
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Publication: October 2, 2008
Imprint: Faber and Faber
Language: English

The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history. Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?

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The Spanish are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War and the rule of dictator Generalísimo Francisco Franco? The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting". At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history. Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?

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