Guerra - Couverture souple

Webster, Jason

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385608586 ISBN 13 : 9780385608589

Editeur : Doubleday, 2006

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As in his acclaimed Duende and Andalus, Jason Webster journeys across Spain, this time to explore the lasting effects of the Spanish Civil War. Could the divisions that led to the conflict still be simmering under the surface, and is it possible they could erupt again? "From the Hardcover edition."

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Revue de presse

"Skilfully articulates very delicate matters in a manner which will satisfy even specialists in questions which are still very much in dispute." (Professor Michael Alpert, Professor Emeritus, University of Westminster)

"An absorbing book that conveys the raw Spanish experience - its heat, dust, light and shade - with rare and startling actuality. Admirers of his first two books will have their high regard confirmed by this one. Newcomers should start here. They will not be disappointed." (Literary Review)

"Moving and succinct...generous and humane...With this book, Webster definitively joins the long line of Anglophone writers who have interpreted Spain to the world: Richard Ford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Gerald Brenan, Hugh Thomas, and Ian Gibson. It is distinguished company but he deserves his place in the pantheon." (Sunday Telegraph)

"The term "romantic traveller", once used indiscriminately by Spaniards to describe any foreigner with apassionate interest in Spain, seems particularly applicable to Jason Webster...you are likely to be seduced by his powers as a storyteller. Such familiar incidents as the assassination of the poet Lorca are retold with such panache that you are made to feel that you are reading about them for the first time." (Independent)

"Written with considerable power and beauty." (Sunday Times)

Quatri�me de couverture

'Written with considerable power and beauty'
Sunday Times

When Jason Webster moved into an old farmhouse north of Valencia, he found by chance an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.Spurred to investigate the history of the bloody conflict many of his Spanish friends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the country he loved. Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Falangists, arrested by the police, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a hidden legacy of cruelty and violence. Could the dark, primitive currents that ripped the country apart in the 1930s still be stirring under the sophisticated, worldly surface of today's Spain?

'There are many . . . dirty deeds recorded but, partly because of Webster's essentially happy character, his heartfelt prose and his deep love for modern Spain and its vibrant people, this positive and optimistic book leaves an impression of hope after the horror'
Daily Mail

'You are likely to be seduced by his powers as a storyteller' Independent

'An exceptional writer' Guardian