num_pages: 400
description: The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco's death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call 'the pact of forgetting'. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history. Tremlett's journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor's white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?
language: English
title: Ghosts of Spain
titlecomplete: Ghosts of Spain
characters: José María Aznar, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Baltazar Garzón, Juan José Ibarretxe, George Borrow, Pedro Almodóvar, Manuel Fraga, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Gerald Brenan, Jesús Gil y Gil, Juan Carlos I de España, Francisco Franco, Felipe González, José Monje Cruz, Sabino Arana, Jacint Verdaguer, Mariano Rajoy, Jordi Pujol, Miguel de Unamuno
genres: Historical, Politics, Spanish Literature, European History, Nonfiction, Spanish History, Spanish Civil War, Travel, History, Spain
ratings_count: 3574
places: Spain
publisher: Faber and Faber