Guerra - Couverture rigide

Webster, Jason

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385608543 ISBN 13 : 9780385608541

Editeur : Doubleday, 2006

Synopsis

Completing his edgy Spanish trilogy, Jason Webster journeys through Spain to unearth the secrets of the Spanish Civil War, and explore its legacy today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Brought up in England, Jason Webster lived for many years in Spain. His acclaimed non-fiction books about Spain include Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco; Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain; Guerra: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War; Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain and the forthcoming The Spy with 29 Names. He is also the author of the Max Cámara series of crime novels, the first of which, Or the Bull Kills You, was longlisted for the CWA Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards New Blood Dagger 2011. This was followed by A Death in Valencia and, most recently, The Anarchist Detective.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.Spurred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish friends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the country. Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Falangists, arrested and threatened by the police in the former HQ of the Spanish Foreign Legion, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, shunned by locals, haunted by ghosts and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a legacy of cruelty and violence that seems to linger on seventy years after the bloody events of that war.

As in Webster's previous books, Duende and Andalus, ¡Guerra! reveals the essence of modern Spain, which few outsiders ever manage to see. Fascinating true stories from the Civil War, vividly retold as he travels around the country, form a concise and compelling introduction to the period, from the murder ofLorca to the siege of the Alcázar and the fire-bombing of Guernica. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more his is led to wonder: could the dark, primitive currents that ripped the country apartin the 1930s still be stirring under the sophisticated, worldly surface oftoday's Spain?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385608543
• ISBN 13: 9780385608541
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible