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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past Hardcover - 2007
by Tremlett, Giles
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- Title Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
- Author Tremlett, Giles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 386
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Walker Books, New York
- Date 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # ABE-1701045338748
- ISBN 9780802715746 / 0802715745
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.5 x 1.27 in (23.52 x 16.51 x 3.23 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects National characteristics, Spanish, Spain - Description and travel
- Dewey Decimal Code 946.08
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Summary
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 Generalisimo 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?