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

Door Giles Tremlett

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#404545-UI15
Titel
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past
Auteur
Tremlett, Giles
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Faber & Faber
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
0571221688
ISBN13
9780571221684
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 Generaliacute;simo 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, donat... (Lees verder)e their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?
Pagina's
437
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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