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"Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most voluble people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of the Spanish Civil War? 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'. As these graves were dug up, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through its recent past." "Spanish history, Tremlett discovered, was a tinder-box of disagreements. Why do Basque terrorists kill? Why do Catalans hate Madrid? Did the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dream of a return to Spain's Moorish past? The ghosts of the past were everywhere." "Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of Spaniards. Do they prefer anarchy or order? When do they sleep? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do Spaniards go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than any other Europeans? Finding answers to those questions involved travelling some strange and colourful byroads."--BOOK JACKET
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Description and travel, History, Influence, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, Spanish National characteristics, Travel, Spain, history, Spain, social life and customs, Spain, social conditions, Spain, politics and government, Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939, New York Times reviewed, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Manners and customs, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, National characteristics, spanish, Spain, description and travelPeople
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20th century, Civil War, 1936-1939Showing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past
2012, Faber & Faber, Limited
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past
March 4, 2008, Walker & Company
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Secret Past
February 6, 2007, Walker & Company
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Ghosts of Spain: travels through Spain and its silent past
2007, Walker & Co., Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
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Includes index.
Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2006.
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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 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?
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