{"product_id":"ghosts-of-spain-travels-through-spain-and-its-silent-past-9780802716743","title":"Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An invaluable book . . . A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present.\"-Sarah Wildman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call \"the pact of forgetting\"-the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. \u003ci\u003eGhosts of Spain \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelatory book about one of Europe's most exciting countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiles Tremlett \u003c\/b\u003eis the Madrid correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e. He covered Spain for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/i\u003efor which he is now a contributing editor. He has lived in, and written about, Spain for the past twenty years, and is the author of\u003ci\u003e Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Madrid with his wife and their two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527309103378,"sku":"9780802716743","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_90541da4-47b6-4bfd-87be-2ced2ba972ea.jpg?v=1731297046","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ghosts-of-spain-travels-through-spain-and-its-silent-past-9780802716743","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}