Ghosts of Spain, Giles Tremlett
Ghosts of Spain, Giles Tremlett
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Ghosts of Spain
Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

Author: Giles Tremlett

Narrator: James Cameron Stewart

Unabridged: 19 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/21/2020

Synopsis

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.

About Giles Tremlett

Giles Tremlett is an award-winning historian and non-fiction writer. He won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2018 for his book Isabella of Castile, Europe's Fist Great Queen. His biography Catherine of Aragon: Henry VIII's First Queen was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and on the short-list for the H. W. Fisher Prize in 2010. His first book was Ghosts of Spain: Travels through a Country's Troubled Past, published in 2006. He has been Madrid correspondent for The Guardian and The Economist. He was voted Correspondent of the Year in 2012 by Spain's Club Internacional de Prensa. He remains a Contributing Editor at The Guardian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roy on June 15, 2016

It is still a mystery to me how so many Spaniards can function on so little sleep. Late one night in Madrid, as my friend and I finished eating our dinner on Spanish time—which means we get home around midnight—we were walking back to our apartment when it suddenly began to rain. First, it sprink......more

Goodreads review by David on April 05, 2010

Books about Spain -- #2 : Ghosts of Spain : Travels through Spain and its Silent Past by Giles Tremlett (2006). [This is the second of several inter-related reviews for the books listed below: 1. The New Spaniards by John Hooper, 2nd edition, 2006. 2. Ghosts of Spain : Travels through Spain and its Sil......more

Goodreads review by Anna on August 27, 2011

I admittedly haven't finished this book. When I first started it, I was very impressed with the author's understanding of Spanish history (in particular, the continuing trauma of the Spanish Civil War). I enthusiastically read the book up until about Chapter 6, when I became aware of the fact that t......more

Goodreads review by Richard on April 18, 2009

On a trip to Spain a few years ago, I needed to make a change to my train ticket from Madrid to Malaga. The ticket agent, a man in his 50s or 60s, barely listened to my request, looked at his watch, and without ever looking up growled, "No". Just the one word, without explanation and never looked at......more

Goodreads review by Brian on May 10, 2023

I like Tremlett’s non-stop curiosity. He explores all corners of Spain, investigating the worlds of beach resorts, gypsies, parents, ethno-nationalists, corrupt politicians, terrorists, migrants, villagers, or drug cartels. He looks at Spain’s slow coming to terms with the “pact of forgetting” over......more

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