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

by Giles Tremlett

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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...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780571221684
  • Publish Date 15 March 2007 (first published 16 March 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 11 January 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English