verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Tremlett] paints a rich, multicolored canvas of one of Europe's most fascinating nations.""--Entertainment Weekly" Mr. Tremlett['s]...affectionate yet critical intimacy with the country helps to make this book much more than an ordinary journalistic survey....Extended residency has...allowed Mr. Tremlett to gather off-beat stories distinctly revealing of his adoptedland."--"Wall Street Journal "(Francis X. Rocco) Benidorm is the archetypal Spanish beach resort and is popular with many north European tourists. Prior to the tourist boom in Spain, there wasn’t much activity. It was a modest beach-side village where fishermen, sailors and farmers made up the bulk of the people, not tourists.

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This is nowhere more evident than on the East Coast. I remember travelling from Barcelona to Valencia on the train during the Easter holidays. The train passed towns such as Tarragona, which are based on the coast. It is appropriate, therefore, to try to get to grips with this most complex of nations by delving into its history. Its 'ghosts' are one of the keys to understanding Spain and, after a lengthy period of denying their existence, it seems the Spanish are waking up to this fact. The clearest example of this new trend has been the recent opening up of some of the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mass graves that dot the countryside dating from the civil war. Estimates put the number of bodies in these unmarked ditches at 30,000. They are, almost all, men and women killed during the Francoist repression, a dirty secret Spain has done its best to forget. Now, though, a handful have been excavated and the murdered victims given proper burial. Richard Baxell, How the International Brigades were ‘thrown into the heart of the fire, [in:] The Spectator 17 October 2020 Tremlett's] affectionate yet critical intimacy with the country helps to make this book much more than an ordinary journalistic survey...[with the] sort of insight that vindicates his approach to a deeply traditional and fast-changing land."--"Wall Street Journal

A]n evocative, often poignant sojourn through the as-yet uncleared psychic mists of the civil war."-- "Star-Tribune "(Michael J. Bonafield) An] incisive and engaging book....[Tremlett's] sober analysis of how the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004...exposed deep fissures in Spanish society is the best report I've read on the subject....[A]n invaluable book. Indeed, since it appeared in Britain last year, 'Ghosts of Spain' has become something of a bible for those of us "extranjeros" who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present."--"New York Times Book Review" (Sarah Wildman)

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

An] affectionate, deeply informed tour of the country.... a highly informative, well-written introduction to post-Franco Spain. Mr. Tremlett's taut recounting of the 2004 train bombings in Madrid makes especially timely reading, with the suspects now on trial."--"New York Times "(William Grimes) Faber & Faber: Ghosts of Spain [Giles Tremlett, 9780571221684]". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 . Retrieved 26 May 2010. The war deeply divided Spain along ideological lines. The fascists led by Franco committed numerous atrocities and a lot of the dead were placed in mass graves that have only recently begun to be dug up. Although a lot has changed since then, the country has struggled to come to terms with the legacy of the Civil War and wounds have not healed despite the length of time that has passed.This digging up of the past marks Giles Tremlett's starting point for a series of essays on Spain, loosely presented as a travel book, exploring some of the more intriguing aspects of the country through its history, taking in everything from flamenco to Basque nationalism. After years working as the Guardian's Madrid correspondent, he has amassed a treasure trove of fascinating information and anecdotes.

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The reason Spain struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of Francoism is that there was collective amnesia about his reign. It was felt at the time that it was better to forget what had happened than to reflect as a society. Tremlett hits his stride, though, in his retelling of the events surrounding the Madrid train bombings in March 2004. The links with Al-Andalus and the Reconquista, underlined both by the terrorists and the then prime minister, José María Aznar, are woven into the narrative.An] affectionate, deeply informed tour of the country... . a highly informative, well-written introduction to post-Franco Spain. Mr. Tremlett' s taut recounting of the 2004 train bombings in Madrid makes especially timely reading, with the suspects now on trial."-- "New York Times "(William Grimes) Find sources: "Giles Tremlett"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

An] incisive and engaging book... .[Tremlett's] sober analysis of how the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004...exposed deep fissures in Spanish society is the best report I've read on the subject... .[A]n invaluable book. Indeed, since it appeared in Britain last year, 'Ghosts of Spain' has become something of a bible for those of us "extranjeros" who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present."-- "New York Times Book Review" (Sarah Wildman) Grimes, William (21 February 2007). "In the Land of Flamenco, Civil War’s Buried Bones". The New York Times.Until the death of the Fascist dictator, General Franco, Spain was a dictatorship until 1975. It may seem like a long time ago, but it is still relatively recent and despite transitioning to democracy, the shadow of Franco lingers in Spain. I lived in Spain for two years from 2015 to 2017. It’s a fantastic, diverse and interesting country and it was an experience that I will never forget.