Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

ISBN-13:	9780802716743
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	03/04/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	225,657
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.23(h) x 1.11(d)

"An invaluable book . . . A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present."-Sarah Wildman, New York Times Book Review The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting"-the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe's most exciting countries.