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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tremlett, Giles. Ghosts of Spain. New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007 (OCoLC)767540471 |
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| Named Person: | Giles Tremlett |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Giles Tremlett |
| ISBN: | 0802715745 9780802715746 |
| OCLC Number: | 81013518 |
| Notes: | Includes index. Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2006. |
| Description: | 386 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The edge of a barber's razor -- Secretos a voces -- Looking for the Generalísimo -- Amnistía 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 -- II-M: Moros y Cristianos -- In the shadow of the serpent and the axe -- The madness of Verdaguer -- Coffins, Celts and clothes -- Moderns and ruins. |
| Responsibility: | Giles Tremlett. |
Abstract:
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War, of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads finally broke the unwritten understanding among Spaniards that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. Madrid-based journalist and 20-year resident Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why its people have kept silent so long, and here unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Delving into such 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. He also offers trenchant observations on Spanish life today, such as why Spaniards dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat, and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing.--From publisher description.
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