Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Tremlett, Giles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571221688 ISBN 13: 9780571221684

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2007

Riassunto

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?

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

Guardian journalist Giles Tremlett travels through contemporary Spain examining the darker sides of it's history.

L'autore:

Giles Tremlett is the Guardian's Madrid correspondent. He has lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University twenty years ago.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0571221688
• ISBN 13: 9780571221684
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352