It is perfect for anybody who is wanting to learn more about Spain. A pleasant, easy read and recommended to anyone who wants a first x-ray of this marvelous country. If you already knew a lot about Spain, you'd probably find it irritatingly superficial. If you already knew a lot about Spain, you'd probably find it irritatingly superficial.

by Walker & Company He is in touch with real people and this gives his writing an immediacy and directness that goes beyond the common judgemental Briton abroad. Spain has won the last two European Nation's Cup and the last World Cup, playing a system created and taught by Cruyff. In 1970 it was isolated (along with Portugal), a decaying fascist state.

An impulse buy in the FNAC in Barcelona, galloped through in a couple of days, this was a good book for me to read at this point. We’d love your help. I enthusiastically read the book up until about Chapter 6, when I became aware of the fact that the author's observations were dissolving into gross generalizations and blatant hyperbole -- which isn't to say that there isn't truth there. Yet, somehow, within Spain there existed enough independent life and thought that after Franco's death, the country quickly and relatively painlessly (one nearly tragic but ultimately comic coup attempt aside) became part of Western Europe. Overall, this is an interesting snapshot and tour of the 'new' Spain of about 15 years ago by a British transplant journalist, Giles Tremlett. Welcome back. Ghosts of Spain Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past (Book) : Tremlett, Giles : The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War, of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads finally broke the unwritten understanding among Spaniards that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored.

He is the author of Ghosts of Spain, and biographies of Catherine of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. Perhaps the most interesting chapters were on the Basque, Catalan and Galician regions and their various quests for separate identities.

“They were going away to spend three days with their teachers and lots of farmyard animals at a ‘granja escuela’ – ‘a school farm’. It gives you 'ganas' to go discover the country for yourself. After decades of silence about it, witnesses and descendants alike are now asserting the right to examine its history. ), don't seem to realize (or care) that the end result of increasing diversity is that nothing is unique anymore. The author shares anecdotes from his own life - at times very recognizable for anyone who has lived in Spain - and interesting historic background of certain cultural and political phenomenons.

I mean I’m not interested in flamenco or construction boom and ensuing machinations. Also, the transition was made easier (perhaps possible) by a widespread practice of letting the past remain in the past.I liked parts of this book more than others, but overall it was an interesting look at a society that has gone from semi-fascist dictatorship to liberal democracy in just a few years. The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War, of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads finally broke the unwritten understanding among Spaniards that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. This is a very thorough and broad overview of Spain’s old and new history, covering all imaginable topics from la transición, its gypsy community and Spain’s booming real estate and modern architecture. Sign up to see what your friends are reading, get book recommendations, and join the world’s largest community of readers. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. He already belonged to that noisy, congenial mass known as Spaniards in a way that I – with my innate, sometimes awkward, anglosajón individualism – find impossible.”

Overall, this is an interesting snapshot and tour of the 'new' Spain of about 15 years ago by a British transplant jouI've read a lot on Spain, but mainly on older history, the Reconquista, The Peninsular War and of course the Spanish Civil War, a subject that was apparently off limits as a topic in post-Franco Spain up until around the time of this book (2006-07). It does at times seem to dwell a bit more on the obscene than I would have liked but it is probably quite accurate in its descriptions.Very well written. I persevered and was ultimately rewarded with excellent insights which only keen eye of a totally submersed observer could detect and relay to reader. Why are the spanish so noisy?

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