02666cam a2200361 i 4500 889090782 TxAuBib 20230711120000.0 070921s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780802716743 pbk. 0802716741 pbk. (OCoLC)173240093 TxAuBib rda Tremlett, Giles. Ghosts of Spain : travels through Spain and its silent past / Giles Tremlett. New York : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, [2008] ©2008. 396 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2006. Includes a new afterword by the author. Includes index. Introduction: the edge of a barber's razor -- Secretos a voces -- Looking for the Generalísimo -- Amnistía and amnesia : the pact of forgetting -- How the bikini saved Spain -- Anarchy, order and a real pair of balls -- The mean streets of Flamenco -- Clubs and curas -- Men and children first -- II-M : Moros y Cristianos -- In the shadow of the serpent and the axe -- The madness of Verdaguer -- Coffins, Celts and clothes -- Moderns and ruins. 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. Madrid-based journalist and 20-year resident Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why its people have kept silent so long, and here unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Delving into such questions as who caused the Civil War, why Basque terrorists kill, why Catalans hate Madrid, and whether the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dreamed of a return to Spain's Moorish past, Tremlett finds the ghosts of the past everywhere. He also offers trenchant observations on Spanish life today, such as why Spaniards dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat, and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing. --From publisher description. 20230711. Tremlett, Giles Travel Spain. National characteristics, Spanish. Spain Social life and customs 20th century. Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Influence. Spain Description and travel.